David Malebranche

David J. Malebranche (born February 20, 1969) is an American internal medicine physician, researcher, and public health advocate who specializes in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

Early life and education Malebranche was born in Schenectady, New York to Roger and Donna Malebranche. He is a first-generation Haitian-American and his mother is European-American. His father, a surgeon, was born in Anse-à-Veau, Haiti and came to the United States in 1961. From 2012 to 2015, he was a primary care physician for the University of Pennsylvania Student Health Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He returned to Georgia in 2015 to work for WellStar Health System as the infirmary physician for the Cobb County Adult Detention Center in Marietta, Georgia.

Malebranche has published articles in medical and public health journals on the topic of HIV in the Black community, an area of expertise which he has discussed in documentaries, news interviews, speeches, and educational programming. He contributed an essay to Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today, a 2009 anthology edited by Gil Robertson IV. In 2015, he published Standing on His Shoulders, a memoir about life lessons he learned from his father.