Christopher Whaley
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Education
Ph.D., health policy, University of California, Berkeley
Summary of Experience
Professor Whaley is a health economist who specializes in health care costs, pricing transparency, and market structure. He has examined health insurance markets, policies, payer-provider negotiations, telehealth use, medical claims data, insurance benefit design, and consumer incentives. Professor Whaley has testified at deposition on hospital markets and reimbursements in an arbitration matter. He has presented research results to state and federal policymakers, including the US Congress, the California State Assembly, the Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Reform, the Executive Office of the President, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Federal Trade Commission. His work has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, such as Health Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the American Journal of Health Economics, the Review of Industrial Organization, and the AMA Journal of Ethics. His research has also been covered in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNN. Professor Whaley is the associate director of the Brown University Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research. Prior to joining the Brown University faculty, he was an economist at the RAND Corporation.