Health and Human Rights is published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center) is a university-wide Center at Harvard University. François-Xavier, son of the Center’s founder Albina du Boisrouvray, tragically lost his life while on a helicopter rescue mission in 1986. Endowing the Center in 1993 with the support of the FXB Foundation, Albina sought to perpetuate the values, generosity, and compassion that motivated François-Xavier, who strove especially to protect children. The Center is premised on the inextricable link between health and human rights, as advanced by founding director Jonathan Mann and strongly supported by then-Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvey Fineberg. The FXB Center champions the rights and dignity of every individual, with special attention to children, the most vulnerable. The FXB Center employs interdisciplinary approaches to such complex problems as poverty, forced migration, climate disruption, oppression, racism, bigotry, discrimination and inequity. By protecting fundamental human rights, the FXB Center aims ultimately to improve the physical, mental, and social well-being of individuals and populations. To learn more, please visit fxb.harvard.edu.
The Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University was founded on the principle of health as a human right and the recognition of the importance of social justice as a means to achieve health for all. The school’s focus includes particular attention to improving health in cities, eliminating health disparities, and promoting health in all policies. Within the school, the Office of Global Health’s Jonathan Mann Global Health and Human Rights Initiative partners with health and human rights organizations and activists throughout the world, expanding evidence- and community-based global health research, advocacy and teaching to advance human rights related to health and promote accountability and justice.
Health and Human Rights was founded and continues through the support of The Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB International). FXB International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that has been fighting against extreme poverty for over 30 years. The story of FXB started in 1986, when Albina du Boisrouvray’s only son François-Xavier, a rescue pilot, was killed in a tragic helicopter accident when he was just 24.