Mental health and neuroscience

Blog & Updates

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mar 2023

“Popularly Enthralling and Ethically Disquieting”: As Psychedelics Research and Medicine Goes Mainstream, Greenwall Faculty Scholars Weigh In

After a half-century of relative dormancy, there has been a recent, tremendous surge in the clinical use and research of psychedelics like ketamine and psilocybin. The legal and cultural...

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...

Scholars

Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhD

Class of 2029 University of Pittsburgh

Anna Wexler, PhD

Class of 2028 University of Pennsylvania

Brendan Saloner, PhD

Class of 2026 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD

Class of 2023 University of Utah

Andrew Peterson, MA, PhD

Class of 2021 George Mason University

Paul P. Christopher, MD

Class of 2021 Brown University

Gidon Felsen, PhD

Class of 2017 University of Colorado School of Medicine

Debra JH Mathews, MA, PhD

Class of 2014 Johns Hopkins University

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Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, MA, PhD

Class of 2014 Baylor College of Medicine

David Winickoff, JD, MA

Class of 2010 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Amy McGuire, JD, PhD

Class of 2009 Baylor College of Medicine

Scott Y. H. Kim, MD, PhD

Class of 2009 National Institutes of Health

Jason Karlawish, MD

Class of 2005 University of Pennsylvania

Grants

Maximizing Justice, Beneficence, & Nonmaleficence in Narratives of Mental Health Disparities

Matthew Lebowitz, PhD Columbia University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2025

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

Peers in Mental Health: Role Boundaries and Ethics

Julia Knopes, PhD Case Western Reserve University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Use of Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health Applications

Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

When Neuroscience Meets Disability Rights Law: An Ethical Mandate to Address the Clinical Needs of Patients with Severe Brain Injury

Joseph J. Fins, MD Weill Cornell Medical College

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: fall 2017

The Prodromal Schizophrenia Empirical and Ethical Nexus (PSEEN): Normative Implications

Dominic A. Sisti, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 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

Research and Recommendations on Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship

Erica Wood, JD American Bar Association

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015

Ethical Implications of Excluding the Mentally Ill from Medical Treatment Research

Keith Humphreys, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

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