Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Blog & Updates

May 2026

Greenwall Grantee Is Helping Congress Better Engage with Patients

Patients are often invoked in health policy debates but are seldom able to meaningfully shape and drive those policies. That is the challenge Generation Patient is working to address with the help of its 2025 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking grant.

Apr 2026

From Greenwall Grant to the Classroom: Bioethics Educational Resources with a Lasting Impact

Over the last decade, Greenwall-funded projects have produced educational materials that are still useful and relevant today—for bioethics students and scholars as well as anyone who’s curious and wants to learn about the field.

Apr 2026

How The Greenwall Foundation Responded to a Shifting Landscape in 2025

In 2025, The Greenwall Foundation made grants beyond our core programs and initiatives that reflected the urgency of the moment and our long-standing commitment to strengthening bioethics and making it integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research.

Nov 2025

Foundation Announces Fall 2025 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund three new research projects from the Fall 2025 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.

Oct 2025

Exploring Health Inequities Through Live Performances and Open Public Discussion in Philadelphia

Two Greenwall Foundation-commissioned performances of A REFUTATION, with Theater of War Productions, will be hosted in Philadelphia, PA and webcast live on October 23.

Aug 2025

Autism Care and Research Through a Bioethics Lens

The Greenwall Foundation held a webinar to explore the ethical dimensions of autism care and research.

Jul 2025

Announcing a Greenwall Foundation Webinar, “A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research”

On Thursday, August 14, at 2 p.m. ET, The Greenwall Foundation will host a webinar, A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research.

Jun 2025

Governance Changes at The Greenwall Foundation

In May, The Greenwall Foundation celebrated the contributions of retiring members of its Board of Directors and Faculty Scholars Program Committee and welcomed a new member to the FSP Committee.

Mar 2025

“A REFUTATION” Performance Spurs Discussion About Modern-Day Inequities for Caregivers and Patients

Theater of War Productions staged two Greenwall-commissioned dramatic readings of "A REFUTATION," a series of conflicting historical accounts of Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic with implications for America’s current health inequities. They marked the capstone celebration of the Foundation’s 75th anniversary.

Jan 2025

Exploring Health Inequities Through Live Performances and Open Public Discussion in Washington, DC

The 75th anniversary celebration continues into early 2025 with our capstone event: two Greenwall Foundation-commissioned performances of A REFUTATION, with Theater of War Productions, that will be hosted in Washington, DC, and webcast live on February 21 and 22.

May 2024

Reshma Jagsi on Upstream and Downstream Disparities in Health and Medicine | Part One

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.

May 2024

Reshma Jagsi on Upstream and Downstream Disparities in Health and Medicine | Part Two

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

Jun 2023

Lessons Learned from Bioethics Research During the Pandemic—Video

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.

Dec 2022

Ruha Benjamin, PhD, and Meghna Chakrabarti Discuss Technology, Racial Bias, and More at the 2022 Stubing Lecture

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.

Jun 2022

Greenwall-funded Special Report Calls on Bioethics to Lead the Charge Against Racial Injustice and Health Inequities

“[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...

Mar 2022

Greenwall’s Vision for an Inclusive, Impact-driven Bioethics

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...

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 professionals,...

Dec 2021

Greenwall Grantee Develops Ethics Principles to Help Feed America in Times of Crisis

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...

Nov 2021

Greenwall Faculty Scholar Alum Asks Educators to Lean into Conflict

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...

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 announcedit 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...

Mar 2021

Greenwall-funded Bioethics Research Addresses Injustices in Health and Healthcare

Racial and gender bias against healthcare providers. Unequal access to vaccines. Poor health outcomes in communities of color. Bioethics can help us confront and address these and other...

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...

Sep 2020

Ensuring the Ethical Inclusion of Pregnant Women in HIV Research

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

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...

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

Bioethics in Community Health: Understanding Ethical Challenges of Community Health Centers

Carolyn Neuhaus, PhD The Hastings Center

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

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

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

Understanding perspectives on genomic research in an ethnically and racially diverse cohort of parents

Ingrid Holm, MD, MPH Boston Children’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Periviable Decision-Making Dynamics: Who should decide and what happens when parental parties disagree?

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD Indiana University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
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

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

A Rubric for Algorithmic Fairness for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

David M. Kent, MD, MSc Tufts Medical Center

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2020

Engaging Diversity: Pathways to Bioethics for Minority Students

Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH Georgia State University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Discrimination, Accommodation & Inclusion: Examining Muslim Clinician Experiences within Academic Medicine

Aasim Padela, MD, MSc University of Chicago | Medical College of Wisconsin

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2019

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

When patients demean healthcare providers

Alicia Fernandez, MD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2017

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

The Social Support Criterion in Transplantation: Considerations for Distributive and Procedural Justice

Keren Ladin, PhD Tufts University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Ethical Implications of Excluding the Mentally Ill from Medical Treatment Research

Keith Humphreys, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Latino Perspectives on Data-sharing in Psychosis Research

Barton W. Palmer, PhD University of California, San Diego

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

Toward Policies that Accommodate the Concerns of African Americans in Resolving Disputes about the Use of Life-Sustaining Technology

Kimberly S. Johnson, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014