The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
Center faculty work at international and national levels through collaboration and partnerships with health and human rights practitioners, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and international agencies to do the following:
• expand knowledge through scholarship, professional training, and public education
• develop domestic and international policy focusing on the relationship between health and human rights in a global perspective
• engage scholars, public health and human rights practitioners, public officials, donors, and activists in the health and human rights movement.
Center Leadership
Dr. Jim Yong Kim was appointed FXB Professor and Center Director in July 2006 when he returned to Harvard from the World Health Organization, where he served as Director of the HIV/AIDS Department. In this post, Dr. Kim led the "3 x 5" initiative designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005.
Center History
The Center was founded at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993 through a gift from the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud. In 1996 it moved from its original location in Cambridge to the newly constructed François-Xavier Bagnoud Building at HSPH in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston.
Jonathan Mann served as the first François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor and Center Director from 1993 to 1997. Daniel Tarantola and Sofia Gruskin served successively as acting directors from 1997 to 1999. Stephen Marks was appointed FXB Professor and Center Director in July 1999. In July 2006, Jim Yong Kim assumed leadership of the center.
The first issue of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal in its new electronic format is planned for May 2008.
The journal will operate on an "open access" principle, providing free and unlimited access to all content on line. We will also offer a "print on demand" service for those individual readers and institutions that prefer to purchase ink-on-paper copies of the journal. We will provide you with further details and the journal's new URL shortly.
This site last updated January 2008. 
