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News and Updates

May 2023

Announcing a Greenwall Foundation Webinar—Beyond COVID: The Broader Reach of Bioethics Research from the Pandemic

With the federal COVID-19 public health emergency over, many of the bioethics questions raised during the pandemic remain. What can we take away from bioethics research from the pandemic as we move forward?

Apr 2023

Promoting Vaccine Information in the Texas Legislature

In 2022, the Foundation announced a new grant initiative that seeks to support the innovative and practical integration of bioethics into policy. Among the first of these Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking (BBRP) grants is "Disseminating vaccine information and increasing equity during the 2023 Texas state legislative session," helmed by PI Kirstin R.W. Matthews, PhD, of Rice University.

Apr 2023

Bioethics and Climate Change: Exploring the Intersection of Health and the Environment

For decades, bioethics has included philosophical explorations of the relationship between humans and the environment—explorations that closely relate to the medical and health-related pursuits by...

Mar 2023

Can We Fix Failed Hype Cycles in Telehealth?

In 2022, Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, a Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program Alum, published The Doctor Who Wasn’t There, an historical look at the emerging telemedical technologies of the last two...

Oct 2022

Foundation Announces 2022 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

In summer 2022, the Greenwall Foundation announced its newest grant initiative, Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking, to support innovative and practical integration of bioethics into...

Sep 2022

Faculty Scholars Take on Hot Topics in Bioethics: Prescription Drugs and the Inflation Reduction Act

The past few years have underscored the essential role bioethics plays in helping us navigate health crises and controversies. From the tsunami of COVID-19 to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v....

Sep 2022

Faculty Scholars Take on Hot Topics in Bioethics: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

The past few years have underscored the essential role bioethics plays in helping us navigate health crises and controversies. From the tsunami of COVID-19 to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v....

Sep 2022

The Greenwall Foundation Presents a Live Webcast, “Restoring Trust in the FDA,” Moderated by STAT’s Adam Feuerstein, on September 29

The Greenwall Foundation will host a live webcast panel, “Restoring Trust in the FDA,” on Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 12:30pm EDT. The webcast is open to the public. Registration is...

Apr 2022

Making a Difference Grantees Use Bioethics to Address Critical Issues Raised by COVID-19

It’s been more than two years since COVID-19 was declared a national emergency. Still, the pandemic continues to impact the health and well-being of people across the globe and accentuate...

Dec 2021

Greenwall Making a Difference Grant Team Member Discusses Challenges Facing International Medical Graduates

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an extreme physical and mental burden on health care professionals around the world. Scholars have found that in the United States health care...

Nov 2021

Foundation Announces Fall 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund six new research projects from the Fall 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.
The Making a...

Oct 2021

Make Room, the Next Generation Is Bringing Bioethics to the Table

Should the United States focus on distributing COVID-19 booster shots or sharing its vaccine supply globally? How do we distribute resources when unvaccinated people fill up ICUs because of...

Oct 2021

In Pushing Cool, Keith Wailoo Reveals How the House of Menthol Was Built

On April 29, the FDA announced it would work to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. Their decision was based on clear evidence of addictiveness, and recognized the harm caused by decades of...

Sep 2021

Announcing the 2021 Stubing Memorial Lecture

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, ethical issues have been critical and very real, with bioethics discussed daily in the national news and around dinner tables. In this extraordinary year, Dr....

Jun 2021

Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Spring 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.
The Making a...

Mar 2021

In The Problem of Alzheimer’s, Board Member Jason Karlawish Analyzes the Past and Future of Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

Jan 2021

As Opioid Use Disorder in the U.S. Soars, Making a Difference Grantees Suggest Ways to Improve Treatment

In December 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released provisional data showing a distressing trend: drug overdose deaths are on the rise. Over 81,000 overdose deaths...

Dec 2020

Who's First in Line for a COVID-19 Vaccine? Greenwall Faculty Scholars Examine Urgent Ethical Issues in Vaccine Allocation

After almost 11 months of research and billions of dollars invested, vaccines designed to protect people against one of the most serious health threats in a century are starting to enter the...

Nov 2020

Video: 2020 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture Offers Historical Perspective on Pain, Prejudice, and Pandemics

Now available on video, The Greenwall Foundation’s 2020 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, Whose Pain Matters?: Reflections on Race, Social Justice, and COVID-19's Revealed Inequalities, drew...

Nov 2020

Foundation Announces Fall 2020 Making a Difference Grants

The Greenwall Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Fall 2020 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant...

Oct 2020

Whose Pain Matters? Reflections on Race, Social Justice, and COVID-19's Revealed Inequalities

COVID-19 continues to impact health and economies around the globe, but the pandemic has had another effect: exposing entrenched inequalities in society...

Mar 2020

Faculty Scholars Tackle Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Pandemic

The unprecedented public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic raises many complex ethical issues – from putting in place public health restrictions on individual liberty, to allocating...

Scholars

Faith Fletcher, PhD

Class of 2026 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

Lauren Taylor, PhD

Class of 2026 NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Nicholas G. Evans, PhD, MSME

Class of 2023 University of Massachusetts Lowell

Miranda R. Waggoner, PhD

Class of 2022 Florida State University

Douglas John Opel, MD, MPH

Class of 2018 University of Washington School of Medicine

Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

Class of 2016 Harvard Medical School

Jennifer J. Prah, PhD, MSc, MSL, MA

Class of 2013 University of Pennsylvania

Maria W. Merritt, PhD

Class of 2012 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health

James Colgrove, PhD, MPH

Class of 2008 Columbia University

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil

Class of 2008 Stanford University

Grants

An ethics-informed policy for urine drug testing in pregnancy: impact on patients and providers

Erica Holland, MD Boston Medical Center

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2023

Developing Practical Guidance for Integrating Sustainability and Conservation Ethics into Clinical Decision-Making

Andrew Hantel, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2022

Dilemmas of health equity in global health research: A study of research on climate-sensitive infectious disease

Maria Merritt, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2022

From transparency to moral perception: Analysis of conflicts of interest arising from industry payments to advanced practice nurses and their practice networks

Quinn Grundy, PhD, RN University of Toronto

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2022

Post-Roe Indiana: An Ethnography of Patient Treatment During Pregnancy Losses, Termination, and Complications

Lori Freedman, PhD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2022

Moral distress among obstetricians and gynecologists in the post-Roe era

Erika Sabbath, ScD Boston College

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2022

Enabling Ethical Analysis and Public Justification in State-Level Pandemic Responses in the United States

Anne Barnhill, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

The Ethics of Implementing Coronavirus Vaccines: Independence, Transparency, and Social Confidence

William Feldman, MD, DPhil Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Integrating Bioethics into Public Health Practice and Covid-19 Policies

Efthimios Parasidis, JD The Ohio State University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Developing stakeholder-engaged ethical guidance for public health wastewater surveillance

James Keck, MD, MPH Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Evaluating the role of ethical, medical, and economic considerations in the suspension of in-person visits to long-term care residents during a pandemic

Jakub Hlavka, PhD University of Southern California

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Who should be treated? The ethical challenges of administering opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for people who inject drugs during COVID-19

Roberto Abadie, PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Mass Administration of Antibiotics: Reaching Clinical and Community Equipoise

Anthony Deh-Chuen So, MD, MPA Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2020

The Ethics of Food Bank Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Rationing Behind Bars: Resource Allocation in Jails and Prisons During COVID-19

Brendan Saloner, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Ethics-Informed Decision Making and the Return of College Sports amidst COVID-19

Christine Baugh, PhD, MPH University of Colorado Denver

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Evidence and Uncertainty in COVID-19 Vaccination Policy-Making

Jason Schwartz, PhD Yale University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Toward Effective Cooperation between Clinical and Other Community Stakeholders Committed to Stemming the Opioid Epidemic

Farr Curlin, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Exploring Shared Decision-making as an Ethical Response to the Opioid Epidemic

Elizabeth Evans, PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians Who Care for Immigrants in Federal Immigration Detention

Sondra Crosby, MD Boston University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

International Medical Graduates at the Crossroads: Ethics of Immigration Policy and Health Care in Underserved Areas

Kata Chillag, PhD Macalester College | Davidson College

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

A new ethical and regulatory approach for the use of human challenge studies with emerging infectious diseases

Seema Shah, JD Seattle Children's Hospital | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

Establishing ethical interpretations of not yet fully interpreted public health and evidentiary standards in the Federal Tobacco Control Act

Lawrence Gostin, JD Georgetown University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

A Mutually Responsive Approach to Developing Technologies That Alter Shared Ecosystems

Kevin Esvelt, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2016

Justice-Enhanced Economic Evaluation of New Technologies for Gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)

Maria W. Merritt, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015

Understanding the Lifecycle of the Perceived Legitimacy of Public Health Laws

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

The Uses and Abuses of Fear

Amy Fairchild, PhD Columbia University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013