Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium

Supporting Open Access Publication

Health and Human Rights disseminates research and scholarship that supports the view that health is a human right. Since 2008, it has had an open access policy, removing financial barriers so that readers everywhere in the world have access to information. Furthermore, the journal holds a unique position in academic publishing because neither does it impose fees on authors for publication.* This unusual arrangement is made possible through the support of the Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium, our publisher Harvard University Press, and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

Consortium members are committed to health and human rights in their research and teaching, practice, programs, and policy. Health and Human Rights values their commitment to open access and freedom of information.

Further information about the Consortium is available here: Harvard FXB Consortium HHR_2019.

*A publishing fee is applied only when authors have received research or university grants to publish in open access journals.

Consortium Members


Partners in Health, Boston PIHLogo

PIH is a global health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. We build local capacity and work closely with impoverished communities to deliver high quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.


Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto UniversityofTorontoLogo

The Dalla Lana School of Public Health is a Faculty of the University of Toronto that originated as one of the Schools of Hygiene begun by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1927.  After a period of decline, the School of Public Health went through a dramatic renaissance after the 2003 SARS crisis and it is now the largest School of Public Health in Canada, with over 300 outstanding faculty, 450 students, 18 Institutes and Centres led by its faculty, including a new Institute for Global Health Equity & Innovation, and research and training partnerships with institutions throughout Toronto and the world. The School also brings to Health and Human Rights its partnership with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, one of the world’s leading such entities, with scholarship and training that spans clinical care, public health, and global health.


Mailman School, Columbia University, New York

Founded in 1922, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health pursues an agenda of research, education, and service to address the critical and complex public health issues affecting New Yorkers, the nation and the world. The Mailman School is the third largest recipient of NIH grants among schools of public health. Its over 450 multi-disciplinary faculty members work in more than 100 countries around the world, addressing such issues as preventing infectious and chronic diseases, environmental health, maternal and child health, health equity, health policy, and climate change and health. It is a leader in public health education with over 1,300 graduate students from more than 40 nations pursuing a variety of master’s and doctoral degree programs.


O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University was established to respond to the need for innovative solutions to the most pressing national and international health concerns. Housed at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., the O’Neill Institute reflects the importance of public and private law in health policy analysis.  The essential vision for the O’Neill Institute rests upon the proposition that the law has been, and will remain, a fundamental tool for solving critical health problems in our local, national, and global communities.

The O’Neill Institute’s research program is organized around seven thematic areas, one of which is health and human rights.


Phoenix Zones Initiative

Phoenix Zones Initiative is a global nonprofit organization on a mission to advance rights, health, and well being. Led by physicians and a diverse cross-sectoral team, Phoenix Zones Initiative recognizes the inextricable links between the welfare of people, animals, and the planet in the search for social and environmental justice. We focus on robust structural change—advancing ethical norms, values, legal and economic frameworks, and policy priorities to improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals and communities.