Health disparities

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.
Oct 2025

Exploring Health Inequities Through Live Performances and Open Public Discussion in Philadelphia

Two Greenwall Foundation-commissioned performances of A REFUTATION, with Theater of War Productions, will be hosted in Philadelphia, PA and webcast live on October 23.
Aug 2025

Autism Care and Research Through a Bioethics Lens

The Greenwall Foundation held a webinar to explore the ethical dimensions of autism care and research.
Jul 2025

Announcing a Greenwall Foundation Webinar, “A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research”

On Thursday, August 14, at 2 p.m. ET, The Greenwall Foundation will host a webinar, A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research.
Mar 2025

“A REFUTATION” Performance Spurs Discussion About Modern-Day Inequities for Caregivers and Patients

Theater of War Productions staged two Greenwall-commissioned dramatic readings of "A REFUTATION," a series of conflicting historical accounts of Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic with implications for America’s current health inequities. They marked the capstone celebration of the Foundation’s 75th anniversary.
Jan 2025

Exploring Health Inequities Through Live Performances and Open Public Discussion in Washington, DC

The 75th anniversary celebration continues into early 2025 with our capstone event: two Greenwall Foundation-commissioned performances of A REFUTATION, with Theater of War Productions, that will be hosted in Washington, DC, and webcast live on February 21 and 22.
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 Difference program funds...
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

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

Scholars

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Katherine R. Peeler, MD, MA

Class of 2028 Harvard Medical School
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Brendan Saloner, PhD

Class of 2026 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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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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Wangui Muigai, PhD

Class of 2025 Brandeis University
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Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA

Class of 2024 University of California, Berkeley
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Zahra Ayubi, PhD

Class of 2022 Dartmouth College
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Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS

Class of 2019 Indiana University School of Medicine
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Monica Peek, MD, MPH

Class of 2018 University of Chicago
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Jon Tilburt, MD

Class of 2014 Mayo Clinic
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Jennifer J. Prah, PhD, MSc, MSL, MA

Class of 2013 University of Pennsylvania
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Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD

Class of 2013 University of Michigan
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Charmaine DM Royal, PhD

Class of 2012 Duke University
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James Colgrove, PhD, MPH

Class of 2008 Columbia University

Grants

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
Maximizing Justice, Beneficence, & Nonmaleficence in Narratives of Mental Health Disparities
Matthew Lebowitz, PhD Columbia University
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 2025
Identifying Equity Priorities for Xenotransplantation Human Clinical Trials
Laura Kimberly, PhD New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
spring 2025
Reducing Bias and Fostering Respect for Patients as Persons: The Promise of Humanizing Medical Records
Mary Catherine Beach, MD Johns Hopkins University
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
spring 2025
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
spring 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
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
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
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
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
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