NAWAL M. NOUR, M.D., MPH- Obstetrician
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Dr. Nawal Nour is actively researching the health and policy issues regarding female genital cutting (FGC) locally and internationally. She has spoken in numerous academic and national conferences regarding the medical management of women who have undergone this practice. Committed to the eradication of FGC, she travels throughout the country conducting workshops to educate African refugees and immigrants on the medical complications and legal issues of this practice. She was recently on an FGC task force for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She served as the primary author for Female Genital Cutting, Clinical Management of Circumcised Women, published by ACOG. This slide-lecture kit aims to educate obstetricians-gynecologists on the medical management of circumcised women in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Nour is a board certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and is the Director of the Obstetric Resident Practice at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. She has also established an African Women's Health Practice that provides appropriate health and outreach programs to the African community in Boston. Dr. Nour was honored as a 2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellow for creating the country’s only center of its kind that focuses on both physical and emotional needs of female circumcision victims. This work has been covered by the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, O and Essence magazine and CNN Espaniol.

Born in the Sudan and raised in Egypt and England, Dr. Nour came to the United States to attend Brown University. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1994 and completed a chief residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA in 1998. She received the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Health Policy where she obtained her MPH at Harvard School of Public Health in 1999. She was subsequently awarded the H. Richard Nesson Fellowship from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for her community work and outreach.