About the FXB Center

Children’s rights are at the heart of FXB’s work, and its programs are a response to the concrete implementation of their rights from conception to adulthood, as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1989.

Our initiatives are comprehensive and multifaceted, addressing various aspects of childhood protection, such as:

• The prevention of human trafficking and labor exploitation in India and the United States while advancing the rights of children in undocumented, refugee, and detention settings and providing a framework to strengthen multidisciplinary education around the policies and practices of child protection.
• Addressing the adverse perinatal impacts for Black-birthing people residing in resource-deprived neighborhoods over their life course, racial bias training in medical education and clinical practice, race-based medicine, algorithmic bias, and health policy.
• Assessing how systemic and structural racism via the carceral state and biased social policies and practices target the Black family and community and how these structures further perpetuate racial inequities in health, including psychiatric and substance use health outcomes.
• Developing critical quantitative, computational, & mixed methodologies to detect, examine, and quantify how structural racism in medicine jeopardizes healthcare delivery, access, and quality.
• Exploring ways to advance health equity, with particular interests in advocating data disaggregation practices and examining the intersections of structural racism and health.

Through advocacy and research, we increase awareness of the human consequences of inequitable responses to disasters and the impact of conflict on health and human rights of civilians.

We conduct research on key child migration and displacement issues in support of communities forced out of their homeland by poverty, conflict, climate change, and state-sponsored campaigns of discrimination and violence. Visit the program page here.

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights is an academic hub engaging in a broadly collaborative justice and rights-based approach in the study of Palestinian health through knowledge production, education, and multidisciplinary community engagement. Visit the program page here.

We strive to address all forms of structural violence domestically and abroad, including deaths by legal intervention. This includes calling attention to the ways structural violence has contributed to the U.S. opioid crisis, which disproportionately affects communities of color. Visit the racial justice program page here.

Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights founded the Roma Program at Harvard in 2012. The goal of the program is multifold: to develop a body of research and methodologies that examine and give voice to topics and issues Roma people prioritize; to spotlight and amplify the voices of leading and emerging Roma scholars, organizations, activists, and leaders; to shift the field of Romani Studies away from the margins of academic interest and co-center it in social, health, and political theory and multidisciplinary, multi-thematic, and multiregional studies; and to create connections and collaborations with other communities of scholarship. Visit the program page here.

FXB International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with over 30 years of experience in breaking the cycle of poverty. Children’s rights are at the heart of FXB’s actions, and each of its programs is a response to the concrete implementation – in the daily lives of children – of their rights as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1989. FXB programs also integrate most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to reach the 2030 agenda. 18 million adults and children have already benefited from its programs. Learn more.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center at Rutgers School of Nursing began in 1987 as a clinical program that provided family-centered care for HIV, infectious diseases, and immunologic disorders. Early in the 1990s, the center received generous funding from Albina du Boisrouvray’s FXB Foundation to enhance the local clinical program and to expand the center’s expertise to address the rapidly growing HIV pandemic. In recognition of this generous award, the center was named the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center. Learn more.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Flight Vehicle Institute at the University of Michigan focuses on the analysis and design of flight vehicles in an educational setting. It supports faculty and students in their study of airplanes, helicopters, rockets, satellites, and interplanetary missions. It works to promote humanitarian and sustainable applications of aerospace technology. It also engages in outreach to help get a new generation excited about the study of flight. Learn more.