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.

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.

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François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health
651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel: +1-617-432-0656 Fax: +1-617-432-4310
Email: fxbcenter@igc.org