WHO WE ARE

The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary center that works to protect and promote the rights and wellbeing of children, adolescents, youth and their families in extreme circumstances worldwide. The Center pursues this goal by conducting and supporting research, teaching, advocacy, and targeted action.

Intensive Course in Health & Human Rights

The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, in conjunction with the Department of Executive and Continuing Professional Education, is hosting a four-day intensive course at the Harvard School of Public Health on June 10-13, 2013. The course is designed to equip mid-career professionals with the skills to integrate the concepts of health and human rights into their professional activities. Please visit the ECPE website for further information and to register.

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News & Events

FXB Unveils Human Trafficking Program with Reception in California

April 17, 2013 – The FXB Center held a launch event for its Human Trafficking and Forced Labor Program in the San Francisco Bay area on April 17 which gathered over fifty people for formal remarks and a discussion. FXB Center director, Dr. Jennifer Leaning, and director of research, Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, outlined the goals [...]

Boston Globe Interviews Harvard Kumbh Mela Team

April 24, 2013 – The Boston Globe interviewed members of the Harvard Kumbh Mela research team, including FXB Fellow Satchit Balsari, about the scope and objectives of their research in “A pop-up city becomes an 80 million person laboratory“. Of the team of researchers who traveled to the Kumbh Mela from the Harvard School of [...]

Lynne Jones, FXB Fellow, Published in The Lancet

Lynne Jones, a Fellow with FXB, has been published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal. Jones, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker, serves as contributing author for “Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the International Classification of Diseases-11.”

HSPH Forum Event on the Cost of Inaction

On Tuesday, April 16, the Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health hosted a discussion in their studios on “The Cost of Inaction: The Consequences of Failing the World’s Children” to analyze the possible public health applications of the Cost of Inaction, which quantifies the several economic and social costs of not taking certain [...]

FXB Center to Host Kumbh Mela Event and Reception on 03/28/13

For several weeks in January and February, HSPH researchers joined Harvard University’s multi-disciplinary team at the Kumbh Mela to study public health preparedness at the world’s largest gathering. While focused on health-care delivery, water, sanitation, hygiene, child protection and disaster mitigation, the public health team piloted a real-time disease surveillance system at the Mela hospitals [...]

Realizing Roma Rights: Addressing Violence, Discrimination and Segregation in Europe

Realizing Roma Rights: Addressing Violence, Discrimination and Segregation in Europe “Realizing Roma Rights: Addressing Violence, Discrimination and Segregation in Europe,” held on International Roma Day, was the first conference at Harvard University to examine the rights of the Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic minority. In a unique interdisciplinary collaboration, the event was hosted by the FXB [...]

Jacqueline Bhabha Discusses Gender Violence in Times of India

In the aftermath of the December 2012 Delhi rape that sparked protests across the country, the Times of India interviewed FXB Director of Research, Jacqueline Bhabha, on sexual violence in India and the recent Justice J. S. Verma Committee Report. Professor Bhabha explored the issue of consent as redefined by the Verma Report, noting: “I [...]

FXB-Led HSPH Team First to Research Public Health Concerns of World’s Largest Public Gathering

Read about the HSPH Kumbh Mela Team in the news: New York Times Blog; India Today; The Telegraph India; The Times of India; Harvard Gazette; Gulf News; German TV; Health India; Silicon Angle; MaClean’s Magazine FXB-Led HSPH Team First to Research Public Health Concerns of World’s Largest Public Gathering Visit our FXB Center Kumbh Mela blog for [...]

Alicia Ely Yamin Contributes to Human Rights Knowledge Summary for WHO’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

Alicia Ely Yamin, Director of the Program on the Health Rights of Women and Children (HRWC) at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, has served as a contributor for the development and review of the Human Rights Knowledge Summary by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). The Partnership, located at [...]

World Bank Hosts Cost of Inaction Book Launch

On December 19, 2012, the World Bank hosted a highly successful book launch for the Cost of Inaction (COI) at its Washington D.C. headquarters. The event followed on the heels of the October 2012 COI book launch at Harvard University, which featured commentary from Nobel-Prize winning economists Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin. Attended by World [...]