For The Greenwall Foundation, 2024 was a special year,
marking our 75th anniversary as an organization. Throughout the last
twelve months, we celebrated this milestone, sharing stories of the people
and events that have shaped the Foundation’s course during this journey.
2024 also marked another full year of grantmaking. The
Foundation awarded two cycles of Making a Difference grants — one in the Spring,
and one in the Fall — promising bioethics research projects on an array
of critical issues. In the spring, we also announced our newest class of
Greenwall Faculty Scholars: Ryan
Antiel, MD; Kayte
Spector-Bagdady, JD; and Tyler
Tate, MD. And we marked the third year of the Bridging Bioethics Research
& Policymaking (BBRP) initiative over the summer, funding three
new projects that aim to translate research results into policy change.
We welcomed three new Board members this year — Rose Marie Martinez, ScD; David J. Schofield, Jr.; and Timothy M. Westmoreland, JD — as well as a new Faculty Scholars Program Committee member, Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD.
We also brought Greenwall to LinkedIn, where we now have almost 300 followers. We invite you to join us there to keep up with the latest news, updates, announcements, and more from us and our community.
In June, the Foundation hosted a webinar, “Bringing Bioethics to Policymakers: Learning from Experience,” bringing together BBRP grantees for a discussion on what we can do to bring bioethics to the policy table. We launched a new website feature sharing lessons learned from our BBRP grantees as well.
During the summer, we announced Usha
Lee McFarling as the recipient of the 2024 Bernard Lo, MD Award in
Bioethics for her reporting on inequities in health and medicine. Stay tuned
for the 2025 Request for Nominations for this Award, coming soon.
In September, we launched a pilot open-access
publication funding initiative to help maximize the impact of bioethics
research and support core principles of transparency and equity. Through this
initiative, we supported the open-access publication of 12 papers resulting
from Greenwall-funded projects — rendering the results of several Making a
Difference projects freely available to the public.
We closed the year with the 2024 William C. Stubing Memorial
Lecture, “Ethics
in America’s Epidemic: Navigating Solutions and Hope in the Opioid Crisis,”
which featured a fascinating conversation between best-selling author Beth Macy
and journalist and documentarian Perri Peltz on moving forward from the US
opioid crisis and rebuilding affected communities.
Throughout the year, the Greenwall community contributed to
bioethics conversations through publications, commentaries, podcasts, and more.
Grantees and Faculty Scholars, for example, published more than 300 academic
papers and were featured in over 100 news publications.
Thanks to all of you for making ours such a vibrant
community. We’re looking forward to what the new year brings!
