-Obstetrician –
Born in 1966 in Khartoum, Nour is an American obstetrician and gynecologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She was raised in Sudan, Egypt, and England. She graduated from Brown University, and from Harvard Medical School in 1994, and completed a chief residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in 1998. She graduated from Harvard School of Public Health with a MPH in 1999, as a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow. She created the African Women’s Health Practice that focuses on Female genital cutting.
In 2003, she won a Genius Award. Also in 2003, Nour was honored MacArthur Foundation Fellow for creating the country’s only center of its kind that focuses on both physical and emotional needs of women who have had or undergone Female Genital Cutting (FGC). This work has been covered by the Associated Press (AP), New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), Oprah (O) and Essence magazine and CNN Espanol. In 2008, Nour became the Director of the Global Obstetrics and Gynecology Division at BWH.