Reproduction/Women’s health

Blog & Updates

Mar 2024

Making a Difference in the World of Dobbs

A year and a half on from the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the bioethics community is still working hard to understand its impact.

Aug 2023

Bioethics Bookshelf, August 2023: A Year-plus of Books from Greenwall Faculty Scholars

Just in time for the last weeks of summer reading, we’re highlighting the books that have been published or edited by Greenwall Faculty Scholars and Alums since our first installment of Bioethics Bookshelf in March 2022.

Jul 2023

Dr. Lisa Harris Recognized with Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics for Forging Connections Across Division

Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD, has been named the recipient of The Greenwall Foundation’s 2023 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics. The Lo Award recognizes Dr. Harris for forging connections across division through bioethics.

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.

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: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

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....

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...

Scholars

Faith Fletcher, PhD

Class of 2026 Baylor College of Medicine

Wangui Muigai, PhD

Class of 2025 Brandeis University

Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP

Class of 2024 University of California, San Francisco

Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA

Class of 2024 University of California, Berkeley

Miranda R. Waggoner, PhD

Class of 2022 Rice University

Zahra Ayubi, PhD

Class of 2022 Dartmouth College

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS

Class of 2019 Indiana University School of Medicine

Mara Buchbinder, PhD

Class of 2018 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lori Freedman, PhD

Class of 2017 University of California, San Francisco

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

Class of 2015 Harvard Law School

Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD

Class of 2013 University of Michigan

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA

Class of 2007 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Grants

Individuals' Attitudes Regarding their Own Cryopreserved Embryos: Women's Voices, Women's Health, and Reproductive Health Policy

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2003 - 2004

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

Variance on the Margins of Religion and Medicine

Farr Curlin, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2005 - 2006

Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

I. Glenn Cohen, JD Harvard Law School

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2011 - 2012

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

Ethics and Stratified Reproduction

Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD University of Michigan

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

Informed Consent for Catholic Hospital Patients Regarding Effects of Doctrine on Care

Lori Freedman, PhD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2013- 2014

Tracing the Second Wave of Inclusion: Pregnant Women and Biomedical Research Ethics

Miranda R. Waggoner, PhD Rice University

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

Troubling Conscience: Autonomy and Authority in Religious Hospitals

Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA University of California, Berkeley

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

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

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

Prenatal Diagnosis in the Post-Roe Era (PD-PRE)

Asha Talati, MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2023

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

Moral distress among obstetricians and gynecologists in the post-Roe era

Erika Sabbath, ScD Boston College

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2022

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

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

Ethical Dimensions of Abortion Practice in the Context of New Laws

Anne D. Lyerly, MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

When the Fetus Becomes a Patient: The Ethics of Fetal Surgery

Ryan Antiel, MD Mayo Clinic

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

The Ethics of Electronic Fetal Monitoring: the intersection of ethics, law, and everyday medical practice

Raymond De Vries, PhD University of Michigan

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018