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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.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
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.
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

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.
Nov 2023

Navigating the Intersections of Mental Health, Community, and Climate Change: Insights from the 2023 Stubing Lecture

On November 14, 2023, The Greenwall Foundation presented the William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The Lecture centered on Dr. Belkin's perspective on mental health, not merely as an individual concern but as one intertwined with social policy and community wellbeing.
Oct 2023

Making a Difference Grantees: ASBH 2023 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. Read more for a schedule of their presentations.
Sep 2023

Announcing the 2023 Stubing Memorial Lecture: Can Mental Health Save the World?

On November 14, 2023 The Greenwall Foundation and Columbia University’s Division of Ethics will host this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture in person in New York City and online.
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

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...
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...
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....
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

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

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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Mar 2021

In The Problem of Alzheimer’s, Board Member Jason Karlawish Analyzes the Past and Future of Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer's disease is the fifth leading cause of death for Americans 65 and older, and the number of persons with Alzheimer's is only expected to rise in the coming years. However, many physicians...
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

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...
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

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Doni Bloomfield, JD

Class of 2028 Fordham University School of Law
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Katherine R. Peeler, MD, MA

Class of 2028 Harvard Medical School
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Faith Fletcher, PhD, MA

Class of 2026 Baylor College of Medicine
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Lauren Taylor, PhD

Class of 2026 NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Nicholas G. Evans, PhD, MSME

Class of 2023 University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Miranda R. Waggoner, PhD

Class of 2022 Rice University
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Douglas John Opel, MD, MPH

Class of 2018 University of Washington School of Medicine
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Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

Class of 2016 Harvard Medical School
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Jennifer J. Prah, PhD, MSc, MSL, MA

Class of 2013 University of Pennsylvania
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Maria W. Merritt, PhD

Class of 2012 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health
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James Colgrove, PhD, MPH

Class of 2008 Columbia University
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Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil

Class of 2008 Stanford University

Grants

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
Expanding equitable research participation: Development of practice guidelines for prison and jail health research policies
Justin Berk, MD Rhode Island Hospital
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 2025
The Future of Bioethics
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD Columbia University
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 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
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
Developing Practical Guidance for Integrating Sustainability and Conservation Ethics into Clinical Decision-Making
Andrew Hantel, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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
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
Developing stakeholder-engaged ethical guidance for public health wastewater surveillance
James Keck, MD, MPH Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
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
Evaluating the role of ethical, medical, and economic considerations in the suspension of in-person visits to long-term care residents during a pandemic
Jakub Hlavka, PhD University of Southern California
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exploring Shared Decision-making as an Ethical Response to the Opioid Epidemic
Elizabeth Evans, PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
spring 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
A new ethical and regulatory approach for the use of human challenge studies with emerging infectious diseases
Seema Shah, JD Seattle Children's Hospital | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago
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
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
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
The Uses and Abuses of Fear
Amy Fairchild, PhD Columbia University
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 2013