Dr. Nour actively researches the health and policy issues regarding female genital cutting. She directs the Obstetric Resident Practice and the African Women's Health Center at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. This center focuses on both physical and emotional needs of women who have had or undergone female genital cutting. Passionately committed to the eradication of this practice, she travels throughout the country conducting workshops to educate African refugees and immigrants on the medical complications and legal issues of this practice. She has written an influential protocol for medical management of female circumcision and has developed techniques for the surgical reversal of infibulation, the most severe form of female circumcision. In the fall of 2003, Dr. Nour was named a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Dr. Nour received her AB from Brown University in 1988 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1994. She completed a chief residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1998. She received the Commonwealth Fund, Harvard University Fellowship in Health Policy and obtained her MPH at Harvard School of Public Health in 1999. She was subsequently awarded the H. Richard Nesson Fellowship from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for her community work and outreach.