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C. Ross Anthony
C. Ross Anthony grew up in Oklahoma, and after graduating from Williams College, his interest in public service, Asia, and mountains led him to join the Peace Corps in Nepal.
In the Peace Corps, he worked as an agriculture extension agent but became interested in healthcare as a vehicle to make a difference in Nepal. This led Ross to envision and found the Dhorpatan Health Project.
After leaving Nepal, Ross completed his doctorate in economics, got married, moved to Oregon, and taught economics at the University of Oregon. A Robert Wood Johnson fellowship at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) brought him to Washington, D.C., and a career in public service in and out of government.
After OMB, Ross served as Assistant Administrator for Program Development at the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services and was responsible for regulatory policy development and research for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Later, as Director of the Office of Development Resources for USAID/Europe, he directed six divisions responsible for program design of Eastern European countries that broke free from communism.
For the last twenty years Ross has worked at RAND, the nonprofit think tank. At RAND, Ross led numerous programs and projects and served as professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Among others he directed RAND’s Global Health Initiative and the Center for Domestic and International Health Security. He has led projects on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, health reform of Qatar and Kurdish Region of Iraq, and healthcare and nation building.
Ross has served on numerous boards and commissions including the U.S. President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans and WHO subcommittee of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He has multiple publications to his credit, appeared on numerous media outlets, and testified before Congress on multiple occasions.
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