BOSTON, Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The FXB Center
today announced a new fellowship program for racial justice in
partnership with the JPB Foundation, featuring five new fellows
with diverse backgrounds in health and human rights. The
announcement came during the virtual symposium "Anti-Racism in
Public Health Policies, Practice and Research," hosted by the FXB
Center to launch its new racial justice initiative, which includes
research and a series of conversations on racism as a determinant
of health, root cause of health inequalities and health stressor in
view of improving data and informing policies.
"The FXB Racial Justice program focuses on U.S. racism and is a
new endeavor at the FXB Center, which has focused largely on health
and human rights issues outside the
United States," said FXB Center Director Dr. Mary T. Bassett during the symposium. "As
someone who has been thinking about racism for a very long time, I
take great encouragement for our collective futures from the fact
that the Fellows have decided to focus on these topics, which
remain less conventional and less safe than traditional academic
focus on risk factors and diseases."
The goal of the FXB Center is to deepen the knowledge base and
fill gaps in content and methodology, while ensuring that research
and evidence is responsive to community needs and informs
policymaking. To learn more about the racial justice initiative,
visit: https://fxb.harvard.edu/racial-justice/.
About the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at
Harvard University
The
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB
Center) 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 then Dean
Harvey Fineberg. 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. To learn more, please visit fxb.harvard.edu.
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