About FXB
Advancing Solutions to Achieve Health Equity
Coming together as a mosaic in pursuit of our shared mission
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center (FXB Center) began in 1987 as a clinical program that provided family-centered care for HIV, infectious diseases, and immunologic disorders. Early in the 1990s, the center received generous funding from Countess Albina du Boisrouvray’s FXB Foundation to enhance the local clinical program and to expand the center’s expertise to address the rapidly growing HIV pandemic. In recognition of this generous award, the center was named the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center.
Mission
Grounded in our history as leaders in family-centered HIV health care, the FXB Center at the Rutgers School of Nursing serves communities that are at greatest risk for health inequities. The FXB Center works to achieve this mission through translation of findings to practice and policy, education, and research.
Vision
We seek to eliminate health disparities and promote optimal health in the communities we serve.
Values
The FXB Center is committed to the following core values:
Interdisciplinary
We serve our communities through clinical care, education, & research —each complementing & informing the other.
Purposeful
We address our work in ways that are intentional, planned, & strategic.
Resilient
We adapt to shifts in healthcare needs & priorities.
United
We are deeply embedded in the communities we serve locally & globally.
Committed
We respond to challenges with compassion & an entrepreneurial spirit.
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Andrea Norberg
DNP, MSN, RN
FXB Center Executive Director
I was introduced to the FXB Center serendipitously at a conference over 20 years ago. I was reacquainted with a nurse I had worked with several years prior who shared that she was working at the FXB Center, a center of the School of Nursing within the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, now Rutgers, located in Newark, NJ. When she described the FXB Center’s history of providing interdisciplinary and family-centered HIV care and how this expertise evolved into a model approach to HIV care and worldwide opportunities to help other organizations enhance their capacity to provide this care, I became very excited. I knew that the FXB Center was a place I could see myself working. Fortunately, I was hired by Drs. Mary Boland and James Oleske, the original co-founders of this Center, and the rest for me is history.
As Executive Director, I feel extremely honored and humbled to work with this extraordinary FXB Center team. Together, we lead multiple grant-funded programs, always remembering and drawing upon our unique experiences and history of caring for children and families impacted by HIV in northern New Jersey. The FXB Center is widely recognized for the initiation, implementation, and delivery of several model programs and projects:
- The Child Health Program, a regional leader, has emerged as a national model of care for children and families involved with child welfare.
- Led by nurse practitioners, our HIV clinic utilizes an interdisciplinary model for HIV care that is comprehensive, culturally competent, family-centered, and community-based.
- FXB Center’s evolving research programs are directly informed by and address the health needs of vulnerable groups affected by profound health disparities and are positioned to translate new evidence into clinical practice and to share tools, resources, and learned approaches more broadly through our existing national and international networks.
- FXB Center’s continuing education and technical assistance programs achieve, retain, and strengthen professional competencies among the healthcare professionals we serve and improve the quality of care provided.
- We lead coalitions through strategic and innovative partnerships among stakeholders, influencing healthcare policy, improving clinical practice, and strengthening systems of care. Our approach allows interdisciplinary healthcare leaders to be engaged in national stakeholder working groups utilizing adult learning approaches and extensive group process skills that facilitate problem-solving, decision-making, and implementation of new programs.
I encourage you to explore our website, familiarize yourself with our programs, resources, and continuing education, and contact us if you need additional assistance. We look forward to collaborating with you.
Andrea Norberg, DNP, MSN, RN
Executive Director
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center
FXBCenter@sn.rutgers.edu
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National Institutes of Health
via The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
New Jersey Department of Health, Division of HIV, STD, and TB Services
New Jersey Department of Health, Division of Family Health Services
New Jersey Department of Children and Families, Division of Child Protection and Permanency
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FXB Center History & Milestones:
1985-1990
- 1985: Children’s Hospital AIDS Program (CHAP) was founded at United Children’s Hospital, Newark, NJ, one of the first pediatric centers in the U.S. treating children with HIV/AIDS. It was world-renowned for its interdisciplinary/family-centered model of care delivery. Co-founders: James Oleske, MD, and Mary Boland, DrPH, RN.
- 1990: CHAP received funding from Countess Albina du Boisrouvray and was renamed the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center (FXB Center).
- 1990: FXB Center launched The Family Place, a comprehensive outreach case management and crisis intervention program.
- 1990: FXB Center launched the National Pediatric & Family HIV Resource Center (NPHRC) and Mary Boland, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN, is named its director.
- 1990: The FXB Foundation launched the FXB Chair in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and awarded it to James Oleske, MD.
1991-2000
- 1991-1993: Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 076 (PACTG 076). UMDNJ was a clinical trial site with FXB Center involvement. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935654/
- 1994: The NPHRC focused its efforts on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) after the AIDS Clinical Trials Group 076 showed that Zidovudine (AZT) administered to pregnant women with HIV reduced MTCT of HIV.
- 1997: United Children’s Hospital closes. FXB Center moves to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and becomes a center of the School of Nursing and New Jersey Medical School.
- 1999: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funds FXB Center to lead targeted training of healthcare providers to reduce perinatal HIV transmission.
- 2000: The Child Health Program (CHP) is established in 13 counties in NJ. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of children and families in NJ served by the state welfare system. The Department of Children and Families (DCF) funds the CHP.
- 2000: Health Care Connections is launched to link and engage people with HIV (PWH) in care.
2001-2010
- 2001: FXB Center, in collaboration with the Graduate School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts at Worcester, launched a National Institutes of Nursing Research (NINR)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 to assess the quality of life in children with HIV from birth to age 25, to understand the impact of the disease and its treatment, to develop research-based nursing interventions.
- 2002: FXB Center’s capacity as an NPHRC led to new U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) funding to continue as the AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) National Resource Center (NRC). The NPHRC becomes the NRC for Ryan White Title IV grantees.
- 2002: CDC funds FXB Center under the University Technical Assistance Projects (UTAP) in support of the Global AIDS Program to strengthen MTCT programs, build laboratory capacity, and develop a family-centered, community-based training course. FXB Center works in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Russia, and Zimbabwe, and in collaboration with the World Health Organization and CDC, develops a generic Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) Training Package for Guyana, Botswana, and Tanzania.
- 2003: FXB Center’s Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG), established under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to fight global HIV, evaluated and prevented HIV infection in infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women. The purpose was to provide training and capacity development to build capacity to conduct clinical trials in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Thailand.
- 2005: Linda Podhurst, PhD, is named the FXB Executive Director.
- 2005: FXB Center funded to continue as the AETC NRC.
- 2006: FXB Center continues PACTG and becomes the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Group.
- 2007: FXB Center relocates to UMDNJ’s Stanely S. Bergen Building, 8th floor.
- 2007: CHP expands to all 21 counties as a statewide program.
- 2008: PEPFAR reauthorized with a focus on caring, strengthening, and sustaining. FXB Center continues to build capacity in Tanzania and Botswana, and Guyana transitions to full in-country operation of its HIV program.
- 2008: Andrea Norberg, DNP, MS, RN, is named the FXB Executive Director.
- 2010: FXB Center becomes the northern NJ regional partner site for NY/NJ AETC and is refunded to continue as the AETC NRC.
2011-2020
- 2011: FXB Center launches the Medical Homes National Resource Center, a HRSA-funded cooperative agreement through 2014.
- 2011: FXB Center launches the National Resource Center for Adolescent HIV Prevention, an Office of Adolescent Health-funded cooperative agreement through 2014.
- 2011: Rosanne H. Silberman Foundation funds the development of the Child Welfare Nursing Certificate Program.
- 2011: FXB Center funded by NJ Department of Health (DOH) to train nurses at syringe access programs and address perinatal HIV transmission using the Fetal & Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) -HIV Methodology.
- 2012: FXB Center supports the CDC’s framework to eliminate perinatal HIV transmission in the U.S.
- 2012: Select sponsored projects from UMDNJ Center for Continuing Education-Division of AIDS Education are assumed by FXB Center. As a result, FXB Center is funded by the DOH and the City of Newark to offer clinical quality management programs to Ryan White Clinics in NJ to improve care. In addition, the NJ DOH funds FXB to publish New Jersey HIV Links and lead the annual HIV Clinical Update: The New Jersey Statewide Symposium.
- 2013: FXB Center establishes the Child and Family Nurse Program (CFNP) in 10 counties in NJ with funding from DCF. Expanding on the mission of the CHP, the child and family nurses address the health and well-being of children and families impacted by Super Storm Sandy. CFNP initiated a specialized nursing care delivery model for a vulnerable group of children that reside in biological care in NJ’s child welfare system.
- 2013: The New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act integrates UMDNJ with Rutgers University.
- 2014: FXB Center successfully transitions its program in Tanzania to FXB Tanzania, an in-country operated NGO, and the Botswana program is transitioned to the Ministry of Health
- 2015: FXB Center refunded as AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC, formerly NRC) and takes over leadership of the annual national Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Clinical Conference.
- 2015: The NY/NJ AETC is renamed the Northeast/Caribbean (NECA) AETC. FXB Center is refunded as the NECA AETC northern NJ regional partner site.
- 2015: Felicia Bowen, PhD, DNP, APN, named FXB Endowed Chair in Pediatric Community Nursing.
- 2016: CHP adopted Trauma-Informed Workplace practices, formalized through staff continuing education.
- 2018: Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, PhD, named FXB Endowed Chair in Pediatric Community Nursing.
- 2018: HRSA funds FXB Center for a Special Project of National Significance initiative entitled Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment among People Living with or at Risk for HIV.
- 2019: FXB Center refunded as the AETC NCRC and the NECA AETC northern NJ regional partner site.
2021-present
- 2022: NJ DOH expands scope of work for FXB Center to use FIMR-HIV Methodology in efforts to prevent congenital syphilis.
- 2022: FXB Center awarded a sub-award for an NIH-funded project entitled Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: An All-facility Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Patient and Healthcare Worker Wellbeing.
- 2023: FXB Center HIV clinical program co-locates with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Infectious Disease Practice.
- 2023: Ending the HIV Epidemic in NJ Awareness Campaign project funded by NJ DOH awarded to FXB Center.
- 2023: FXB Endowed Chair in Pediatric Community Nursing renamed to the FXB Center Endowed Chair in Community and Family Centered Care to align with the current mission and vision of FXB Center at Rutgers School of Nursing.
- 2024: NJ DOH expands the scope of work for FXB Center to brand the statewide Harm Reduction Health program.
- 2024: FXB Center hosts the first annual New Jersey Statewide Nursing Summit for nurses who provide HIV care.
- 2024: John A. Nelson, PhD, CNS, CPNP, FAAN, named FXB Endowed Chair in Community and Family Centered Care.
- 2024: FXB Center refunded as the National AETC Support Center (formally the AETC NCRC) and the NECA AETC Northern NJ Regional Partner site.