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Blog & Updates

May 2023

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2026

The Foundation’s flagship Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics helps build the next generation of leaders in bioethics by supporting early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research, and by building an intellectually rich and active community.

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...

Nov 2022

Foundation Announces Fall 2022 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund three new research projects from the Fall 2022 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.
The Making a...

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....

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...

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...

Sep 2020

New Study Raises Questions About Ethics When Doctors Fundraise From Wealthy Patients

Donations from grateful former patients are a significant source of funding for hospitals. In order to solicit donations, some...

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

Brendan Saloner, PhD

Class of 2026 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Matthew McCoy, PhD

Class of 2025 University of Pennsylvania

Danielle M. Wenner, PhD

Class of 2022 Carnegie Mellon University

Govind Persad, JD, PhD

Class of 2021 University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Sean Aas, MA, PhD

Class of 2020 Georgetown University

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

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBioethics

Class of 2011 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD, MPH

Class of 2010 Massachusetts General Hospital

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD

Class of 2005 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grants

Access to drugs and devices that have limited supporting data: ethical implications for patients and physicians

Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH Harvard Medical School

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2012-2013

The Basic Structure Model of Research Stakeholder Obligations

Danielle M. Wenner, PhD Carnegie Mellon University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2018 - 2019

Evaluating and Rethinking Financial Risk Protection in Health Care Systems: Framework Development and Analysis of Contemporary Health Insurance Options

Govind Persad, JD, PhD University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2017-2018

Ethics and Economics in Health Policy

Jennifer J. Prah, PhD, MSc, MSL, MA University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2009 - 2010

Medicine At A Distance: The Recurring Ethical Challenge of Telemedicine

Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2014 - 2015

Ethical Issues in Implementing Shared Decision Making in the Wake of Healthcare Reform

Jon Tilburt, MD Mayo Clinic

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2010 - 2011

Rationing Medicine: The Oregon Health Plan and the Search for Justice in Health Policy

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2001 -2002

In Search of an Ethical Constraint on Hospital Revenue Generation

Lauren Taylor, PhD NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2022 - 2023

Ethical Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil Stanford University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2004 - 2005

Donation after Cardiac Death: Promise and Pitfalls

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBioethics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2007 -2008

Rights in Bodies: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications

Sean Aas, MA, PhD Georgetown University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2016 - 2017

Ethical Challenges in Physician Advocacy and Organ Allocation Policies: Analysis of Exception Letters for Heart Transplantation

Prateeti Khazanie, MD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2023

Simulating Crisis Standards of Care and Developing an Equitable Life Support Allocation Protocol

William Parker, MD, PhD University of Chicago

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2022

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

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

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

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

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

CT Utilization in Urinary Stone Patients and the Effect of Physician Ownership

Lindsay Hampson, MD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013

Does Comparative Effectiveness Research Promote Rationing or Rational Cancer Care?

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013

An Ethical Approach to Routine Tragic Choices: Radiotherapy Allocation in Rwanda

Rebecca DeBoer, MD, MA University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

Developing best practices for medical crowdfunding

Jeremy Snyder, PhD Simon Fraser University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

Exploring ethical dilemmas facing private payers

Peter Ubel, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 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

Research and Recommendations on Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship

Erica Wood, JD American Bar Association

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015