Over the last decade, Greenwall-funded projects have produced educational materials that are still useful and relevant today—for bioethics students and scholars as well as anyone who’s curious and wants to learn about the field. Here, we compile a selection of these projects with continued impact in the classroom and beyond.
Engaging Diversity: Pathways to Bioethics for Minority Students
This 2019 grant enabled Leslie E. Wolf, JD, and her colleagues at Georgia State University (GSU) to create an undergraduate course that sought to inspire students to include bioethics as part of their future studies. The lessons from this project continue to resonate through materials the team made available to others outside GSU. This includes their Inclusive Voices video series, which features experts discussing a range of topics, like health injustices, community engagement, career paths, and more. Check out the video series here and read our blog on the GSU project here.
playing god? Podcast
A 2022 Greenwall grant helped the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics’ Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, and Anna C. Mastroianni, JD, produce playing god?, a podcast series sharing the stories of people caught at the crossroads of modern developments in health and medicine and bioethics dilemmas. The team went on to team up with a group of nationally recognized K-12 educators from across the country to produce free lesson plans and related educational materials for teachers who want to introduce their students to complex ethical questions generated by the development and use of new scientific and medical innovations. The lesson plans—which include definitions of relevant vocabulary and bioethics concepts, classroom discussion guides, suggested student activities, and more—draw from the first season of playing god?, with each episode serving as a unique case study that explores bioethics principles and can inspire lively discussions.
Check out the podcast—hosted by Lauren Arora Hutchinson, PhD—and the episode-by-episode lesson plans here.
The Philosophical Bioethics Hub
Developed by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD, and team with Greenwall support in 2023, the Philosophical Bioethics Hub is a free, publicly available collection of educational materials and resources focused on philosophy and bioethics. The Hub compiles:
- Introductory materials on ethical theory and argumentation
- More than 25 seminars on various contemporary bioethical issues in public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, and decision-making
- Foundational materials exploring the relationship between normative and empirical inquiry in bioethics and practical considerations for normative research
- A book club featuring recently published reading recommendations in contemporary philosophical bioethics
- Collections of lectures as well as upcoming events
Explore the Hub to see how it’s powering today’s bioethics and philosophy conversations and read our blog on the Hub here.