Subject: Harvard School Gets Grant Of $20 Million for Center
Date: Published: 12/8/92 (30 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Technology:
    Harvard School Gets Grant
    Of $20 Million for Center

    BOSTON -- Harvard University's School of Public Health said it
 received a $20 million grant from a Swiss-based philanthropic
 association to fund a new center on health and human rights.
    The grant, by the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, will be
 used at the new center to "research and analyze the relationships
 between health and human rights with special attention to children,"
 Harvard said.  Jonathan Mann, a professor at the Harvard school and
 director of an international AIDS center at Harvard, will be the new
 center's first director, Harvard said.  The center eventually will be
 housed in a new $30 million building.
    The Swiss association was founded three years ago by Countess
 Albina du Boisrouvray and is named after her son, a rescue
 helicopter pilot who died in a crash in 1986.  Ms. du Boisrouvray
 formed the association to fund programs on AIDS, human rights and on
 aerospace research, Harvard said.  The association's funding has come
 from the sale of assets Ms. du Boisrouvray inherited and from the
 sale of a film production company she formed in 1971, Harvard added.

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