Confronting the Public Health and Ethical Challenges of COVID-19

The Greenwall Foundation’s 2021 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, Confronting the Public Health and Ethical Challenges of COVID-19, drew more than 650 participants to an evening of discussion featuring the public health duo leading the fight against COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Dr. Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program Committee Member. The virtual Lecture was moderated by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and produced in partnership with the NYU School of Global Public Health and its Center for Bioethics. The wide-ranging discussion touched on trust in science, how decision-makers should approach misinformation and divisiveness, and reasons to be optimistic in the face of the pandemic.