Email:

dbrahmi@iu.edu

Departments:

Global Health

Degrees:

MD, Indiana University

MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

BA, Indiana University

Biography

Dr. Dalia Brahmi is a Board-Certified Family Physician and reproductive health specialist with Fellowship training in Family Planning.   She has over 15 years of clinical, research and teaching experience managing interdisciplinary teams, designing and implementing reproductive health trainings, and partnering with Ministries of Health and international organizations to improve the quality of sexual and reproductive health interventions.

Dr. Brahmi currently teaches and mentors students at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill as well as Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis.  She trains medical residents specializing in Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in North Carolina. As a Regional Clinical Leader with the Reproductive Health Access Project (www.reproductiveaccess.org) she supports a network of primary care physicians to advocate for comprehensive and equitable access to reproductive health care.

Dr. Brahmi worked as a medical officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research where she conducted systematic reviews, strategic assessments and piloted community heath tools that contributed to evidence-based clinical guidelines used by Ministries of Health including WHO’s Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems and Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraception and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraception. Dr. Brahmi served as Associate Medical Director of Ipas, an international nongovernmental organization working to reduce maternal mortality through increased access to safe abortion and contraception, where she directed the Clinical Affairs and Quality of Care teams responsible for developing Ipas clinical guidelines and monitoring the quality of clinical trainings globally.

Dr. Brahmi has published in peer-reviewed journals including British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Contraception, Family Medicine, Global Health: Science and Practice and International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and has served as an invited expert on technical working groups for the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  

Dr. Brahmi received her bachelor’s (BA) and medical (MD) degrees from Indiana University and completed post-graduate residency training in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, a Fellowship in Family Planning at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Faculty Development Fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center’s Department of Family and Social Medicine in New York.