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The Cost of Inaction
The Consequences of Failing the World's Children

Summary

This Forum event explored the landmark “Cost of Inaction” initiative launched by the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. The project examines the “cost of inaction” of a failure to respond appropriately to children — addressing the complex challenges of enumerating and quantifying the multiple social and economic costs that follow when societies fail to address the pressing needs of their most vulnerable members. The project responds to hitherto unaddressed questions in public health: what are the costs of inaction, and is the cost of inaction greater than the cost of action.

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented in Collaboration with GlobalPost

Background Articles

  • FXB Center for health and Human Rights
    The Cost of Inaction

Image Credit: 2004 Amber Beckham, Courtesy of Photoshare

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Moderator

Samuel Loewenberg
Lead reporter, GlobalPost Special Report on child health and Nieman Global Health Reporting Fellow at Harvard University, 2012

Expert Participants

Countess Albina du Boisrouvray
Founder, FXB International

Sudhir Anand
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

Timothy Thahane
Former Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Lesotho

Julio Frenk
Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and T&G Angelopoulos Professor of International Development at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

Event Resources

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