The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights advances the rights and wellbeing of children, adolescents, youth, and their families living in the most extreme circumstances worldwide. The Center leverages a rights-based approach that involves these marginalized populations in the design and piloting of positive interventions, thereafter translating findings into policy recommendations and practice at all relevant levels of government and civil society.
Employing a range of methods drawn from public health and law, social science, and humanities, the FXB Center’s current research and teaching focus on the areas of child protection, empowerment of people with intellectual disabilities, disaster resilience and response, adolescent agency, health rights of women and children, human trafficking and forced labor, Roma transitions from adolescence to adulthood, and the development and implementation of national identification numbers. The Center’s Health and Human Rights Resource Guide and collection of policy briefs are an excellent starting place for visitors seeking to learn more about the intersection of health and human rights.