Health care/Science policy

Blog & Updates

Sep 2026

Announcing the 2026 Stubing Lecture — Confinement and Care: The Ethics of Health Care Behind Bars

On November 16, 2026, The Greenwall Foundation will host this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture. Homer Venters, MD, will discuss the ethical dimensions of health care in carceral settings, including jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers.

Sep 2026

Foundation Announces 2026 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

The Greenwall Foundation is pleased to announce the latest awards under its Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking initiative: three projects that seek to bridge the divide between bioethics research results and policymaking.

Aug 2026

Bioethics and the Supreme Court: What our Faculty Scholars Community Said About the Latest Term's Decisions

Greenwall Faculty Scholar Alums weighed in on Supreme Court cases over the course of its most recent term as well as the types of issues and cases the Court has opted not to hear.

Jul 2026

Psychedelic Medicine and Research Through a Bioethics Lens

The Greenwall Foundation hosted a webinar that brought together three panelists with legal, research, and ethics expertise to discuss pressing bioethics questions raised by the rapidly evolving psychedelics landscape.

Jul 2026

Prof. Holly Fernandez Lynch Receives Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics for Bridging Division Through Bioethics

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, is the recipient of the 2026 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics. The award recognizes Prof. Fernandez Lynch for bridging division through bioethics and conveys a cash prize of $25,000.

Jul 2026

Announcing a Greenwall Foundation Webinar, “A Bioethics Conversation: What’s Next for Psychedelics?”

The Greenwall Foundation will host a webinar, A Bioethics Conversation: What’s Next for Psychedelics?, on Thursday, July 23 at 2 p.m. ET.

May 2026

Foundation Announces Spring 2026 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund four new research projects from the Spring 2026 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.

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.

Mar 2026

Making a Difference in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Here, we share three Making a Difference (MAD) projects that examine how health systems, clinicians, researchers, and developers can responsibly navigate the growing use of AI in health settings and the complex ethical questions it raises, for example, about transparency, accountability, and trust.

Feb 2026

Navigating AI in Health Care: Guidance and Scholarship from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving rapidly from promise to practice in health care—from its application in diagnostics to ambient scribing. While these tools offer potential benefits, they also pose risks and raise ethical questions about issues such as governance, transparency, and equity.

Jan 2026

Bioethics on the Air: 2025 Podcasts with the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

In 2025, members of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program community continued to be at the forefront of conversations about ethics and health care, policy, and research, including a host of podcast appearances over the course of the year.

Dec 2025

Navigating a Crisis of Trust: The 2025 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture

This year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture examined how we can understand the nation’s crisis of trust in medicine, science, and public health and explored how bioethics can help chart a way forward.

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.

Sep 2025

Announcing the 2025 Stubing Lecture — Navigating a Crisis of Trust: Ethical Policy and Practice in Uncertain Times

Join The Greenwall Foundation on November 13, 2025, in person in New York City and online for "Navigating a Crisis of Trust: Ethical Policy and Practice in Uncertain Times" featuring Dr. Robert Califf and moderated by STAT's Mathew Herper.

Sep 2025

Foundation Announces 2025 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

Aug 2025

National Academy of Medicine Selects its 2025 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced Govind Persad, JD, PhD, as the 2025 NAM Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics. Prof. Persad is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Law.

May 2025

Foundation Announces Spring 2025 Making a Difference Grants

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

May 2025

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2028

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.

Apr 2025

Psychedelics and Ethics: An Update on Research from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

The resurgence in interest in psychedelic medicines, like psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, and mescaline, for their potential to treat mental health conditions—including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder—as well as neurological disorders, like brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease, remains strong.

Apr 2025

Q1 Recap: What our Faculty Scholars Community Is Saying About Bioethics and the New Administration

Three months into the new year, and with a new Administration in place, Faculty Scholars and Alums continue to make headlines for their thoughts and perspectives on new directives and policy proposals; how they affect health care, science, research, and universities; and their impact on Americans across the country.

Feb 2025

Bioethics and the New Administration: Our Faculty Scholars Community Weighs In

Greenwall Faculty Scholar Alums have been active in the news, raising their voices and perspectives around some of the potential policy changes and directives from the new administration that intersect with bioethics issues.

Nov 2024

Study Reveals Policymakers’ Unmet Need for Bioethics Insight in Public Health Decisions

Are policymakers open to receiving bioethics guidance in tackling public health challenges? A recent study by Adam Seth Levine, PhD, and funded by The Greenwall Foundation explored this question. Read about this work in an interview with the Foundation.

Sep 2024

Foundation Announces 2024 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

Jun 2024

Bridging the Gap: How Bioethics Researchers are Influencing Policy

On June 17, The Greenwall Foundation hosted a webinar to showcase the work of three grantees who are taking the knowledge gained from their respective research projects directly to those making policy in that space.

May 2024

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2027

May 2024

New Greenwall Foundation Webinar—Bringing Bioethics to Policymakers: Learning from Experience

On Monday, June 17, The Greenwall Foundation will host a webinar to discuss approaches to increase bioethics’ impact on policymaking.

Mar 2024

From Ethical Inquiry to Legislative Impact: The Bioethics-to-Policy Pipeline

The journey from bioethics research to policy impact is multifaceted, with many paths that lead from academic effort to influence in the policy debate.

Oct 2023

Faculty Scholars, Alums, and Committee Members: ASBH 2023 Annual Conference Presentations

Several members Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program community will present their work at this year’s American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference. Read more for a schedule of their presentations.

Sep 2023

Foundation Announces 2023 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

The Foundation is pleased to announce the latest awards under its Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking initiative: two projects that seek to bridge the divide between bioethics research results and policymaking.

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.

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.

May 2023

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2026

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?

Apr 2023

Promoting Vaccine Information in the Texas Legislature

In 2022, the Foundation announced a new grant initiative that seeks to support the innovative and practical integration of bioethics into policy. Among the first of these Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking (BBRP) grants is "Disseminating vaccine information and increasing equity during the 2023 Texas state legislative session," helmed by PI Kirstin R.W. Matthews, PhD, of Rice University.

Apr 2023

Bioethics and Climate Change: Exploring the Intersection of Health and the Environment

For decades, bioethics has included philosophical explorations of the relationship between humans and the environment—explorations that closely relate to the medical and health-related pursuits by...

Nov 2022

How Can State Medical Boards Better Protect the Public? A Dispatch from the ASBH Annual Conference

State Medical Boards (SMBs) help protect the public by using various methods of accountability to ensure that physicians practice medicine ethically and responsibly. However, some SMBs have failed...

Oct 2022

Greenwall Faculty Scholar Community Weighs in on Restoring Trust in the FDA

In September, The Greenwall Foundation hosted a panel discussion about the state of public trust in the FDA. The participants, which included four members of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program community and moderator, journalist Adam Feuerstein, discussed whether and how trust has been lost in the agency, and how it might be won back.

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 policy....

Oct 2022

Bioethics, Health Policy, and Media Experts Weigh in on Restoring Trust in the FDA

On September 29, 2022, The Greenwall Foundation hosted a panel discussion about the state of public trust in the FDA: Has it been lost? If so, why? And how might it be won back? The panel was moderated by Adam Feuerstein, senior writer at STAT, co-host of “The Readout LOUD” podcast, and winner of the 2021 George Polk Award for investigative medical journalism. Feuerstein was joined by Greenwall Faculty Scholar community members Jason Karlawish, MD, Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, and Keith Wailoo, PhD.

Oct 2022

Making a Difference Grantees: ASBH 2022 Annual Conference Presentations

Some recent Making a Difference grantees will present their Foundation-funded work at this year’s American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference. A schedule of their presentations...

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. Jackson...

Sep 2022

Faculty Scholars Take on Hot Topics in Bioethics: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Sep 2022

The Greenwall Foundation Presents a Live Webcast, “Restoring Trust in the FDA,” Moderated by STAT’s Adam Feuerstein, on September 29

The Greenwall Foundation will host a live webcast panel, “Restoring Trust in the FDA,” on Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 12:30pm EDT. The webcast is open to the public. Registration is required....

Jun 2022

Greenwall Co-sponsors Consensus Study to Develop Governance Framework for Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation

Rapid developments in emerging technologies raise exciting possibilities and important questions about ethics, access, and equity. With science racing ahead, it’s critical to ask even if we can do...

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...

May 2022

Bioethics &: Research in Action

Bioethics brings thoughtful solutions to tough problems. It helps us think carefully about big questions, such as: How do we address significant disparities in health care? Should we be able to...

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 2022

The Aduhelm Problem: Greenwall Faculty Scholars Weigh in on New Alzheimer’s Treatment

On June 7, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approveda novel Alzheimer’s treatment called aducanumab, known by its brand name, Aduhelm. The drug was licensed by Biogen Inc. in 2007 and...

Nov 2021

Foundation Announces Fall 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund six new research projects from the Fall 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program. The Making a Difference program funds...

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...

Sep 2021

Announcing the 2021 Stubing Memorial Lecture

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, ethical issues have been critical and very real, with bioethics discussed daily in the national news and around dinner tables. In this extraordinary year, Dr....

Aug 2021

National Academy of Medicine Selects 2021 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) selected Kavita Shah Arora, MD, as the 2021 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics. Dr. Arora serves as the UNC division director of general obstetrics and gynecology...

Jun 2021

Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Spring 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program. The Making a Difference program funds...

Apr 2021

In Scripting Death, Faculty Scholar Alum Mara Buchbinder Maps the Real-World Impact of End-of-Life Care

Medical aid-in-dying is a complex and layered issue. For decades, the subject has dominated social and political discussions around end-of-life decision-making. Over the last five years, medical...

Mar 2021

Greenwall Faculty Scholars and Grantees Investigate the Ethics of Remote Monitoring

From assessing the performance of pacemakers to tracking a patient’s location and actions, modern technology is increasingly being used to monitor patient wellbeing. These remote monitoring devices...

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...

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...

Nov 2020

Foundation Announces Fall 2020 Making a Difference Grants

The Greenwall Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Fall 2020 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program. The Making a Difference program...

Oct 2020

Greenwall Community Members Debate Psychiatric Aid-in-Dying at ASBH Conference

Greenwall Faculty Scholar Program Committee Member Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, Faculty Scholar Dr. Brent Kious, Faculty Scholar Alum Dr. Scott Kim, and Prof. Margaret Battin debated a difficult and...

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 and healthcare—and creating new ones. The...

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...

Dec 2019

2019 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture - Video

The 2019 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture featured Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues...

Scholars

Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD

Class of 2029 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anna Wexler, PhD

Class of 2028 University of Pennsylvania

Doni Bloomfield, JD

Class of 2028 Fordham University School of Law

Katherine R. Peeler, MD, MA

Class of 2028 Harvard Medical School

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe

Class of 2027 University of Michigan Medical School

Ryan Antiel, MD, MSME

Class of 2027 Duke University

Lauren Taylor, PhD

Class of 2026 NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Matthew McCoy, PhD

Class of 2025 University of Pennsylvania

Craig Konnoth, JD, MPhil

Class of 2024 University of Virginia

Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA

Class of 2024 University of California, Berkeley

Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN

Class of 2023 University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas G. Evans, PhD, MSME

Class of 2023 University of Massachusetts Lowell

Danielle M. Wenner, PhD

Class of 2022 Carnegie Mellon University

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE

Class of 2022 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH

Class of 2019 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School

Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD

Class of 2018 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jessica L. Roberts, JD

Class of 2018 Emory University School of Law

Efthimios Parasidis, JD, MBE

Class of 2017 The Ohio State University

Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

Class of 2016 Harvard Medical School

Debra JH Mathews, MA, PhD

Class of 2014 Johns Hopkins University

Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH

Class of 2013 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Steven Joffe, MD, MPH

Class of 2012 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

David Winickoff, JD, MA

Class of 2010 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD, MPH

Class of 2010 Massachusetts General Hospital

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil

Class of 2008 Stanford University

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA

Class of 2007 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Anna C. Mastroianni, JD, MPH

Class of 2005 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD

Class of 2005 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grants

Bioethical Evaluation in Long-Term Care Design: From Framework to Federal Practice

Diana Anderson, MD Boston University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2026

From Ethical Consensus to State Policy: Translating the Duty to Assure Access to Palliative Care

Amber Comer, PhD, JD Indiana University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2026

From Moral Injury to Policy: Translating Bioethics Research on Nursing Workforce into State Policy

Kumhee Ro, DNP Seattle University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2026

Ethical Framework for n-of-1 Clinical Trials of Genome Editor Therapeutics for Personalized, Single-Dose Therapies

Debra Mathews, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2026

Implementation of ethics guidelines by stem cell research oversight committees

Kate MacDuffie, PhD Seattle Children's Research Institute

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2026

The Pediatric Vaccine Encounter in a New Era: Identifying and Mitigating Ethical Challenges

Mara Buchbinder, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2026

The Future of Bioethics

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD Columbia University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2025

Empowering Independent Patient Advocacy to Drive Meaningful Health Policy Reform

Alexander Naum, JD Generation Patient

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2025

Strengthening Bioethics in the Medicaid Benefit for Children at End of Life

Meaghann Weaver, MD, PhD St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2025

Supporting Ethical Overdose Prediction for State and Local Public Health Authorities

Bennett Allen, PhD New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2025

User Fees and the Food and Drug Administration: Deliberation, Transparency, and Public Trust

Jason Schwartz, PhD Yale University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2025

Communication and Resolution Programs: Tackling the Critical Unanswered Ethical Questions

Thomas Gallagher, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2024

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

Hastings on the Hill: Informing Policy on AI in Health

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD The Hastings Center

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2024

Improving Bioethics in SDOH-Focused Medicaid Programs

Alex Sheff, MPA Health Care For All

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2024

Improving Long-Term Care Facility Design through Bioethical Peer Review

Diana Anderson, MD Boston University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2024

Ethics and Effects of Individual Patient Testimonies in Public Health Decision Making

Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD Brigham and Women's Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2024

Guiding Principles for Human Data Sharing and Use: Balancing Public and Scientific Values

Debra Mathews, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2024

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

Promoting High-Quality Ethics Review and Oversight of Psychedelic Research: Learning from Investigator Experience and IRB Perspectives

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2023

Strengthening Genetic Privacy Law Through Bioethics

Anya Prince, JD University of Iowa

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2023

Protecting the public from bad actors in medicine: A policy change workshop for State Medical Boards

Tristan McIntosh, PhD Washington University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2023

Policymakers’ Unmet Desire for Bioethicists

Adam Levine, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: 2023

Institutional Obligations for Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Developing A Normative Account and Practical Guidance

Stephanie Morain, PhD Johns Hopkins University

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

Disseminating vaccine information and increasing equity during the 2023 Texas state legislative session

Kirstin Matthews, PhD William Marsh Rice University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2022

Housing America’s aging society: a bioethics standpoint for policy development

Nancy Berlinger, PhD The Hastings Center

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 2022

Policies to improve assessment of inherited cancer risk

Robert Cook-Deegan, MD Arizona State University

Grant Type: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking
Grant Cycle: 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

The Ethics of Implementing Coronavirus Vaccines: Independence, Transparency, and Social Confidence

William Feldman, MD, DPhil Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Integrating Bioethics into Public Health Practice and Covid-19 Policies

Efthimios Parasidis, JD The Ohio State University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
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

Physicians' Moral Stress During COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis of Systems Factors

Mara Buchbinder, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Preventing the initiation of, and deprioritizing the continuation of, uninformative clinical trials

Barbara Bierer, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

Ethics-Informed Decision Making and the Return of College Sports amidst COVID-19

Christine Baugh, PhD, MPH University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

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

A Bioethical Framework to Inform Use of Novel Drugs, Devices, and Digital Health Technologies Approved with Incomplete Evidence

Rita F. Redberg, MD University of California San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Ethical and Policy Issues for University Data Sharing in the Age of Big Data

Michelle Mello JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Helping State Medical Boards Effectively Protect Patients by Identifying and Promulgating Promising Practices and Essential Resources

Tristan McIntosh, PhD Washington University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Late Career Practitioners: Balancing Patient Safety and Physician Autonomy

Thomas Gallagher, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2019

Toward Effective Cooperation between Clinical and Other Community Stakeholders Committed to Stemming the Opioid Epidemic

Farr Curlin, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
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

Public and Patient Perspectives Regarding the Ethics of Fundraising from Patients

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil University of Michigan

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

Drawing the line: Assessing and analyzing the US Rule on embryo research from ethical, political, and scientific perspectives

Kirstin Matthews, PhD Rice University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

Establishing ethical interpretations of not yet fully interpreted public health and evidentiary standards in the Federal Tobacco Control Act

Lawrence Gostin, JD Georgetown University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

A Mutually Responsive Approach to Developing Technologies That Alter Shared Ecosystems

Kevin Esvelt, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2016

Challenges and Opportunities Around the Oversight of the Aging Physician

Andrew White, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2016

CRP Certification: A Novel Approach to Accountability and Regulation Following Medical Error

Thomas Gallagher, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015

Ethical Issues in Prescription Drug Access under Restricted Distribution Programs

Ameet Sarpatwari, JD, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Neurotechnologies and the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions

Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Healthcare Ethics Consultation (HEC) in U.S. Hospitals: Current Practices and Perspectives of HEC Practitioners and Hospital Administrators

Ellen Fox, MD Altarum Institute

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Clinical Trial Participants' Attitudes Towards Expanded Access to Participant-Level Clinical Trial Data

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

Consumer Responses to the Public Disclosure of Physician Payments

Genevieve Pham-Kanter, PhD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

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

Evaluating Patient Perspectives to Inform the Ethical Implementation of a Rapid Learning System for Oncology Care

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil University of Michigan

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Physician Disclosures in the Real World of Conflicting Interests and Off-Label Prescribing

Susannah Rose, PhD Cleveland Clinic

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

Understanding the Lifecycle of the Perceived Legitimacy of Public Health Laws

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Developing Ethically Sound Regulatory Strategies for Responding to Medical Injuries

Thomas Gallagher, MD University of Washington

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013

Ethically Responsible Choice Architecture in Medical Decision Making

Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby, PhD Baylor College of Medicine

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013