FXB Harvard

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center), the world’s first University-based center dedicated to the inextricable links between health and human rights, is a University-wide Center at Harvard University. François-Xavier, son of the Center’s founder Albina du Boisrouvray, tragically lost his life while on a helicopter rescue mission in 1986. Endowing the Center in 1993 with the support of the FXB Foundation, Albina sought to perpetuate the values, generosity, and compassion that motivated François-Xavier, who strove especially to protect children. The FXB Center champions the rights and dignity of every individual, with special attention to children, the most vulnerable. The FXB Center employs interdisciplinary approaches to such complex problems as poverty, forced migration, climate disruption, oppression, racism, bigotry, discrimination, and inequity and aims to improve the physical, mental, and social well-being of individuals and populations.