Chris Whaley is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health and Associate Director of the Brown Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR).

He received his PhD in Health Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Chris's research focuses on healthcare price transparency and market structure and has been published in leading clinical, health policy, and economics journals and has been covered in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNN. Chris have presented results to state and federal policy makers, including the US Congress, California State Assembly, Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Reform, Executive Office of the President, Congressional Budget Office, and the Federal Trade Commission.