The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the Jonathan M. Mann papers are now open to research.
Jonathan M. Mann (1947-1998) was the first François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of Health and Human Rights and first Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to his time at Harvard, Mann founded Project SIDA, an AIDS research project in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1984. In 1986, Mann was appointed the first Director of the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland. He came to Harvard in 1990 in the role of Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, becoming FXB Professor and Director of the FXB Center in 1993.
As Director of the WHO’s Global Programme on AIDS, Mann defined the organization’s approach to the AIDS epidemic. Mann’s later work at the FXB Center with colleagues Daniel Tarantola and Sofia Gruskin established a human rights framework for addressing global public health issues. Under Mann’s directorship, the FXB Center launched a curriculum on health and human rights, child rights and health, and HIV/AIDS; and hosted two international conferences (in 1994 and 1996) on health and human rights. Mann also coedited the two-volume reference, AIDS in the World (Harvard University Press, 1992) and AIDS in the World II (Oxford University Press, 1996).
The Jonathan M. Mann papers, 1979-1998 (inclusive), 1990-1998 (bulk), are the product of Mann’s professional activities, primarily from his tenure as François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of Health and Human Rights and Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. The papers consist of alphabetical files, writings, teaching records, conference and events records, photographs, and born-digital files, primarily on the topics of AIDS health impacts and policy, global health, and health and human rights.
For more about Mann and his collection, please view the collection finding aid.