Carla Makhlouf is an Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and is the director of the Center for Research on Population and Health. She holds a Ph.D. in Population, Maternal and Child Health and Behavioral Sciences from  Harvard School of Public Health. Her areas of interest include research on HIV testing and counseling, HIV treatment and prevention, research ethics, gender and medication use, population policy, culture, health and reproduction, epidemiology of reproductive health, ethnography and gender