He taught philosophy for many years at Brown University, where he held the Tillinghast Professorship.
He also served as a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
[7] Brock retired as a professor in 2014, but remained an editorial board member of 12 professional journals in ethics, bioethics and health policy, and lectured widely at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care institutions.
[8] Most recently he served on a panel that updated 20-year-old guidelines and recommendations for evaluating cost-effectiveness in health and medicine, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, September 13, 2016.
[12][13][14] Dan Brock published over 150 articles and co-authored 6 books relating to bioethics and philosophy and served on numerous editorial boards.