Health disparities

Blog & Updates

Dec 2024

Navigating Solutions and Hope in America’s Opioid Crisis: The 2024 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture

Understanding and navigating the U.S. opioid epidemic and related ethical issues was the topic of this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, presented November 19 by The Greenwall Foundation in partnership with the NYU School of Global Public Health and its Center for Bioethics.

Sep 2024

Announcing the 2024 Stubing Memorial Lecture—Ethics in America’s Epidemic: Navigating Solutions and Hope in the Opioid Crisis

On November 19, 2024 The Greenwall Foundation and the NYU School of Global Public Health will host this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture in person in New York City and online.

Jul 2024

Journalist Usha Lee McFarling Receives Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics for Shedding Light on Inequity in Medicine and Health

Usha Lee McFarling, National Science Correspondent at STAT, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics. This year’s award recognizes Ms. McFarling for her role in shaping the public discussion and policy debate about bioethics and equity in healthcare and research.

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.

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?

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...

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.

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...

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...

Oct 2022

Announcing the 2022 Stubing Memorial Lecture

As algorithms supplement human decision-making across a variety of sectors, questions of ethics and equity have come quickly to the forefront. In recent years, researchers found that pulse...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scholars

Brendan Saloner, PhD

Class of 2026 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Faith Fletcher, PhD

Class of 2026 Baylor College of Medicine

Lauren Taylor, PhD

Class of 2026 NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Wangui Muigai, PhD

Class of 2025 Brandeis University

Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA

Class of 2024 University of California, Berkeley

Zahra Ayubi, PhD

Class of 2022 Dartmouth College

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS

Class of 2019 Indiana University School of Medicine

Monica Peek, MD, MPH

Class of 2018 University of Chicago

Jon Tilburt, MD

Class of 2014 Mayo Clinic

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

Class of 2013 University of Pennsylvania

Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD

Class of 2013 University of Michigan

Charmaine DM Royal, PhD

Class of 2012 Duke University

James Colgrove, PhD, MPH

Class of 2008 Columbia University

Grants

Disclosure of Prognosis: Normative Issues and Implications for Practice and Policy

Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

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

Beyond Coercion: An Ethical Framework for Mandated Substance Use Treatment

Brendan Saloner, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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

Parental Perspectives on Periviable Birth: Exploring Values, Attitudes, and Coping Strategies

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS Indiana University School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2015 - 2016

Advancing Maternal Health Equity among Black Women in the United States: Considerations for Bioethicists

Faith Fletcher, PhD Baylor College of Medicine

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

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

Healthcare decision-making in California women’s prisons: historical legacies of injustice and modern regulatory constraints

Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2020 - 2021

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

Generative AI Challenges for Health Data Sharing and Research Integrity

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe University of Michigan Medical School

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2023 - 2024

Ethics and Stratified Reproduction

Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD University of Michigan

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

Navigating Ethical Issues in Medical Venture Philanthropy

Matthew McCoy, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2021 - 2022

Shared Decision-Making among Vulnerable Populations: The Confluence of Bioethics, Health Disparities and Medical Decision-Making

Monica Peek, MD, MPH University of Chicago

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

Trusting Black Women: Exploring Identity, Decision-Making, and History

Wangui Muigai, PhD Brandeis University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2021 - 2022

Deciding for Women: Gender and Authority in Islamic Biomedical Ethics

Zahra Ayubi, PhD Dartmouth College

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

Psychotropic Medication Decision Making for Youth in Foster Care: Challenges, Barriers, and Facilitators to Informed Consent, Assent, and Refusal

Lauren Baker, PhD Washington University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2024

Restorative Processes for Medical Racism: Fostering Accountability and Relational Repair

Crystal Brown, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2024

Moving Away from Race-Ethnicity Based Clinical Care of Early Female Puberty Towards Race and Ethnicity Conscious Puberty Justice

Camilia Kamoun, MD University of North Carolina

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: sping 2024

Trusting Each Other: Enhancing Trust in Health Care Relationships

Matthew Wynia, MD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2023

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

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

The Chatbot Is In: Ethics and Conversational AI in Health Care

Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

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

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

Evidence and Uncertainty in COVID-19 Vaccination Policy-Making

Jason Schwartz, PhD Yale University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

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

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

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

Moral Conceptions of Respect and Dignity

Mary Catherine Beach, MD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 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

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