Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer adalah seorang pakar antropologi kedokteran dan epidemiologi yang mengkhususkan diri dalam kajian kesuburan dan HIV. Seorang mantan profesor asosiasi Masyarakat dan Kesehatan Internasional di Universitas Harvard, Obermeyer menjadi direktur Pusat Riset Masyarakat dan Kesehatan di American University of Beirut pada 2013. Ia juga bekerja untuk Departemen HIV/AIDS dari Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia.
Obermeyer adalah penyunting Family, Gender and Population in the Middle East (1995) dan Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health (2001). Ia menyerukan kajian-kajian lebih mendalam terhadap dampak kesehatan pada khitan pada wanita.
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- "Human rights at Harvard" 2014-02-14 di Wayback Machine., Harvard School of Public Health Faculty, accessed 17 September 2013.
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- Carla Obermeyer, et al, "Facilitating HIV Disclosure Across Diverse Settings: A Review", Am J Public Health, 2011 June; 101(6): 1011–1023.
- John Tierney, "'Circumcision' or 'Mutilation'? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa", The New York Times, 5 December 2007.
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- Obermeyer, Carla. , 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" 2016-04-22 di Wayback Machine., The Washington Post, 4 September 1994.