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.
Homepage photo credits: Vanessa Boulanger, Angela Duger, Petru Zoltan
The Cost of Inaction Featured in The Harvard School of Public Health News
November 1, 2012 – The Harvard School of Public Health has featured The Cost of Inaction in their school-wide newsletter. In The Cost of Not Helping the World’s Most Vulnerable Children, Amy Gutman writes: “What distinguishes COI from a traditional cost-benefit analysis is that it enumerates and quantifies the full social and economic costs of failure to perform a specific action.”
