The pursuit of equity is central to all we do.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights was founded and endowed by Albina du Boisrouvray in 1993. Her goal was to provide protection to children by furthering the vision for health and human rights of founding director Jonathan Mann, and it received the enthusiastic collaboration of Dean Harvey Fineberg.

Our Mission

We use interdisciplinary approaches to promote equity and dignity for those oppressed by racism, poverty and stigma, nationally and around the world. We are proud to partner with a diverse group of scholars, educators, elected officials, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and members of the international policy community to advance health and human rights, and to show the harmful effects of violations on children.

Our Vision

We envision a world that fulfills the human rights of all people, with a special attention to children, and protects them from injustices imposed by discrimination, poverty, conflict and disaster. View our one-pager (PDF)

Our Focus

Childhood Protection

Our initiatives aim to prevent human trafficking and labor exploitation in India and the United States, advance the rights of children in undocumented, refugee, and detention settings, and provide a framework to strengthen multidisciplinary education around the policies and practices of child protection.

Structural Violence and Discrimination

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.

Distress Migration

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.

Crisis Resilience and Response

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.

FXB Family

FXB International

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.

FXB Center at Rutgers School of Nursing

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 Countess 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.

FXB Flight Vehicle Institute at University of Michigan

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.

Work With Us

All FXB Center staff openings are listed on the Harvard employment website: www.hr.harvard.edu/jobs

Current Harvard Chan faculty openings are listed here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/searches/