Carla Obermeyer

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist specializing in the study of fertility and HIV. A former associate professor of Population and International Health at Harvard University, Obermeyer was director of the Center for Research on Population and Health at the American University of Beirut as of 2013. She has also worked for the World Health Organization'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.

Education

• 1988, D.Sc. Harvard School of Public Health, Population, Maternal / Child Health, Behavioral Sciences
• 1983, M.Sc. Epidemiology, American University of Beirut
• 1976, M.A. Anthropology, American University of Beirut
• 1973 B.A. Sociology (with distinction), American University of Beirut

Further reading

• Obermeyer, Carla. "Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable", Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 31(1), 1999, pp. 79–106. PMID 10322603
• Obermeyer, Carla. "The Health Consequences of Female Circumcision: Science, Advocacy, and Standards of Evidence", Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 17(3), September 2002, pp. 394–412. PMID 12974204
• 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. PMID 16864215
• Jacobson, Jodi L.; Ibrahim, Barbara; and Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf. "The Muslim Woman: Fighting For Faith and Family Planning" Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Washington Post, 4 September 1994.