Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is a

medical anthropologist Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied ...

and

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and risk factor, determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decision ...

specializing in the study of fertility and HIV. A former associate professor of Population and International Health at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, Obermeyer was director of the Center for Research on Population and Health at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

as of 2013. She has also worked for the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

's Department of HIV/AIDS. Obermeyer is the editor of ''Family, Gender and Population in the Middle East'' (1995) and ''Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health'' (2001). She has called for more rigorous studies into the health effects of

female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ...

.John Tierney
"'Circumcision' or 'Mutilation'? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa"
''The New York Times'', 5 December 2007.

Education

*1988, D.Sc.

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

, Population, Maternal / Child Health, Behavioral Sciences *1983, M.Sc. Epidemiology,

*1976, M.A. Anthropology, American University of Beirut *1973 B.A. Sociology (with distinction), American University of Beirut

References

*Obermeyer, Carla
"Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable"
''Medical Anthropology Quarterly'', 31(1), 1999, pp. 79–106. *Obermeyer, Carla
"The Health Consequences of Female Circumcision: Science, Advocacy, and Standards of Evidence"
''Medical Anthropology Quarterly'', 17(3), September 2002, pp. 394–412. *Obermeyer, Carla
"The Consequences of Female Circumcision for Health and Sexuality: An Update on the Evidence"
''Medical Anthropology Quarterly'', 7(5), September–October 2005, pp. 443–461. *Jacobson, Jodi L.; Ibrahim, Barbara; and Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf

, ''The Washington Post'', 4 September 1994. {{DEFAULTSORT:Obermeyer, Carla Medical anthropologists Female genital mutilation Living people Harvard School of Public Health faculty Harvard School of Public Health alumni American University of Beirut alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

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