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.[http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:faculty-by-school-public-health&catid=11:faculty&Itemid=70 "Human rights at Harvard"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214190928/http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:faculty-by-school-public-health&catid=11:faculty&Itemid=70 |date=2014-02-14 }}, Harvard School of Public Health Faculty, accessed 17 September 2013.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20141220071224/http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/137/2012/09/ID-Epi-Event-Notes-2013-04-12.pdf "Events & Notes, April 12, 2013"], Harvard School of Public Health, p. 2. She has also worked for the World Health Organization's Department of HIV/AIDS.Carla Obermeyer, et al, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093267/ "Facilitating HIV Disclosure Across Diverse Settings: A Review"], Am J Public Health, 2011 June; 101(6): 1011–1023.

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.John Tierney, [http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/circumcision-or-mutilation-and-other-questions-about-a-rite-in-africa "'Circumcision' or 'Mutilation'? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa"], The New York Times, 5 December 2007.