Some recent Making a Difference grantees will present results or ongoing work from their Foundation-funded projects at this year’s American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, which will be held in Portland from October 22-25, 2025. A schedule of their presentations is below.
To view this schedule as a PDF, click here. A full listing of presentations is also publicly available online in the conference schedule.
Friday, October 24, 2025
8:00 – 9:00 A.M. PDT
Ethics and Data Monitoring Committees: A Systematic Review of Ethical Decision-Making in Monitoring Clinical Trials
Paper Presentation
Akram K. Ibrahim
1:15 - 2:15 P.M. PDT
Psychedelic Ethics: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
Panel Presentation
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD
2:30 - 3:30 P.M. PDT
Psychotropic Medication Decision Making for Youth in Foster Care: A Review and Analysis of State Child Welfare Policy
Paper Presentation
Lauren Baker, PhD
3:45 - 4:45 P.M. PDT
The Ethics of Intentionally Infecting Humans in Research
Paper Presentation
Seema K. Shah, JD
3:45 - 4:45 P.M. PDT
Vaccines and Public Health
Featured Panel Presentation
Jason Schwartz, PhD