Faculty Scholars Program Committee Member Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, has focused much of her career on disparities in health and medicine, and she has recently been part of several projects that explore them.

The Foundation spoke with Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil about inequities within the profession of medicine, focusing on her recent scholarship in this area.

How did bioethics research change as the impact and our understanding of COVID-19 progressed? What lessons can we take with us as we move forward? Watch the Greenwall Foundation's webinar on these topics here.

On November 15, The Greenwall Foundation and NYU School of Global Public Health teamed up to host the 2022 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, Are Robots Racist? Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare. The Lecture featured Ruha Benjamin, PhD, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University in conversation with WBUR’s Meghna Chakrabarti.

“[B]ioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism has posed to the overall health and well-being of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other people of...

Bioethics has been front and center recently: The opioid crisis, Alzheimer’s care, COVID-19, organ transplants, telemedicine, vaccines, and countless other issues raise ethical dilemmas affecting...

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...

When COVID-19 first made headlines in spring 2020, the economy spiraled into crisis, causing 22 million Americans to lose their jobs. Consequently, one in every five people in America received...

Greenwall Faculty Scholars and Alums contribute to bioethics through more than critical research and clinical practice–they also educate future leaders in health care, policy, and research. At this...

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...

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...

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...

Many OB/GYNs frequently must make treatment recommendations for pregnant patients – including patients living with or at risk for HIV – based on insufficient evidence...

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...