Nawal M. Nour

Nawal M. Nour is an obstetrician/gynecologist who directs the Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research and practice focus on providing the right care to women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), also called female circumcision, and she founded the first and only hospital center in the U.S. that focuses on the medical needs of African women who have undergone FGM/C. In 2017, she was listed in Forbes among 40 Women To Watch.

Early life Nour was born in 1966 in Khartoum, Sudan, and was raised in Egypt and England. She reports that she always had two major interests as a young woman: women's health and helping the world. but was inspired to focus her work on it by Nawal El Saadawi's book, in which Saadawi describes her own circumcision. Her work aims both to educate doctors caring for women who have been circumcised, and to eradicate FGM/C.

Other Dr Nour joined other thought leaders at Oxford University's OAC: Breaking the Frame[works] conference at the Blavatnik School of Government. She took part initialing monumental heirloom the Philosophers Legacy.

Works "Defibulation to treat female genital cutting: effect on symptoms and sexual function", Obstet Gyncol, 2006 "Female genital cutting: A persisting practice", Rev Obstet Gynecol, 2008 "Effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting", The WHO Reproductive Health Library, December 1, 2010