Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics Grant

Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The Greenwall Foundation
Amount: US $25,000
Last Updated: February 09, 2026

Summary

The Greenwall Foundation invites nominations for the 2025 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics, a prestigious $25,000 prize recognizing outstanding contributions to bioethics. This award highlights exceptional mentorship in bioethics, celebrating individuals who support rising professionals across diverse sectors, including academia, government, and public health. Nominations can be made by mentees and colleagues, fostering an inclusive recognition of mentorship excellence. Renominations are encouraged, but self-nominations are not allowed.

Overview

The Greenwall Foundation invites nominations for the 2026 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics (Lo Award), a $25,000 prize that is given annually to recognize significant contributions to bioethics. This Award honors Dr. Lo’s service to The Greenwall Foundation as its President & CEO (2012-2020) and founding Director of the Faculty Scholars Program. The Lo Award recognizes one area of accomplishment in bioethics each year. The 2026 Lo Award will be presented for bridging division through bioethics. The division at issue may derive from differences in perspective, politics, power, community, identity, or discipline (to name only some examples). In an increasingly polarized society, bioethics can serve as a model for articulating and navigating differing values and finding shared resolutions to difficult problems. This year’s Award will be given to a recipient or recipients who have leveraged bioethics to bridge division between groups or individuals. We understand “bridging division” broadly; it can include, for example, listening to develop a deeper understanding of opposing views, challenging one’s own assumptions or biases, creating fora for productive discussion and debate, working to move beyond disagreement toward common ground, or promoting a more connected community, among other strategies. A strong preference will be given to nominees who have collaborated – with each other or others – to lessen division and improve policy or practice. Nominees may be individuals, organizations that are US 501(c)(3) public charities, and/or collaborative teams. The Foundation encourages nominees from academic, non-profit, government, industry, and other sectors. Award Criteria The Lo Award Committee will consider: The centrality of bioethics to the work describedThe nominee’s role in the conception and implementation of the workThe intractability of the divisions bridged, and novelty of the approach takenThe strength of collaborative relationships, as demonstrated, for example, through inclusion of diverse perspectives, respectful discourse, consensus building, and mutual benefitCommitment to collaboration, as demonstrated, for example, through duration of collaborative efforts, involvement in different collaborative efforts, and investment of time and effortWhether the nominee’s work has lessened division and improved policy or practiceSteps to share knowledge or lessons learned more widely to promote broader success

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Nominations may be submitted by those who can speak to the excellence of the nominee’s work bridging division through bioethics and the impact achieved.Renominations are welcome.

Ineligibility

Self-nominations will not be accepted.If the nominee is an organization, nominators may not be organizational leaders or current or former members of the organizational team undertaking the work.