Dr. 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). His research focuses on health care price transparency and market structure, has been published in leading clinical, health policy, and economics journals, and has been covered in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and CNN. He has presented research results to state and federal policy makers, including the US Congress, California State Assembly, Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Reform, and the Executive Office of the President. 

Christopher Whaley is a 2019 and 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.