The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Spring 2025 cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas.
Donor Name: The Greenwall Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/02/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Making a Difference program supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.
Priority Topics
While foundation welcomes all innovative proposals that will have a real-world impact, they are particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical and policy issues raised by the following priority topics:
- Trust in science, medicine, and public health;
- Bias and discrimination in health care, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics;
- Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health;
- Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation.
Guidance for Proposals
Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. All proposals should explain how they will help address a real-world bioethics dilemma. Projects to analyze the normative implications of already-completed empirical research are encouraged. The Foundation will support mentored projects in which a postdoctoral fellow or early-career faculty member works closely with an experienced bioethics scholar. The Foundation will also consider pilot or feasibility projects to evaluate an innovative intervention to resolve a bioethics dilemma, with the goal of obtaining funding from other sources for a larger evaluation or demonstration project. Some highly promising projects may be funded for an initial phase, with additional funding contingent on achieving clear milestones.
The research team must have relevant and appropriate expertise to carry out the proposed project. Successful teams commonly involve a bioethics scholar and persons with on-the-ground experience with the bioethics dilemma, for example, in clinical care; biomedical research; biotechnology, pharmaceutical, big data, or artificial intelligence companies; or public service. Such collaboration can specify the bioethics problems that clinicians, researchers, policymakers, public health officials, and others face in their daily work, and facilitate practical resolutions to these problems. Applicants are also encouraged to engage with relevant lay or community stakeholders throughout their project.
In evaluating proposals, the Foundation will consider:
- The ways in which the project promotes the Foundation’s vision and mission and supports the Foundation’s strategic priorities. Importantly, projects that aim to impact public policy must not constitute advocacy projects with predetermined conclusions.
- The project’s approach, including its innovative nature, and how it relates to (and builds on) current scholarship.
- The appropriateness and rigor of the methods, analysis plan, and strategy.
- The likelihood that the project will impact policy or practice.
- The appropriateness and inclusiveness of the project’s planned approach to dissemination and implementation, including to stakeholder audiences beyond academia and key individuals who can change practice or policy.
- The professional backgrounds of the research team, including the team’s expertise in relevant disciplines and their familiarity and experience with the bioethics problems to be addressed, and their success in carrying out similar projects. Early-career investigators are advised to apply with a mentor who actively collaborates in all phases of the project.
- The success of the research team in publishing practical bioethics articles and disseminating the results of their research to relevant stakeholders outside of academia.
- The reasonableness of the budget and project timeline. Projects with smaller budgets and shorter timelines will receive priority.
The Greenwall Foundation only makes awards to affiliated individuals at institutions with tax-exempt status with the United States Internal Revenue Service.
For more information, visit The Greenwall Foundation.
