{{short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox scientist | name = David Malebranche | image = | alma_mater = Princeton University, BA, 1990<br>Emory University School of Medicine, MD, 1996<br>Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, MPH, 2001 | fields = Internal Medicine | workplaces = Emory University School of Medicine<br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Morehouse School of Medicine | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=y|1969|02|20}} | birth_place = Schenectady, New York }}
'''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.<ref name="dg20">{{Cite news|last=Wilkin|first=Jeff|date=February 23, 2020|title=Final words: Roger Malebranche, former St. Clare's surgery head, letter writer, signs off with last letter to editor|work=The Daily Gazette|url=https://dailygazette.com/2020/02/23/final-words-malebranche-signs-off-with-last-letter-to-editor/|access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref name=dg20/>
Malebranche received a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University in 1990 and a medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in 1996.<ref name=ajc17/><ref name=nbjc/> He completed residencies at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, during which time he earned a master's degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.<ref name=nbjc/>
==Career== In 2001, Malebranche was appointed to the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Medicine until 2012.<ref name="ajc17">{{Cite news|last=Staples|first=Gracie Bonds|date=August 31, 2017|title=How improved medicines helped fuel the HIV epidemic|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|url=http://specials.myajc.com/black-men-HIV-3/|access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref> From 2012 to 2015, he was a primary care physician for the University of Pennsylvania Student Health Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<ref name="nbjc">{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2021|title=Dr. David J. Malebranche|url=https://beenhere.org/2018/02/20/dr-david-j-malebranche/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221180234/https://beenhere.org/2018/02/20/dr-david-j-malebranche/|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=National Black Justice Coalition}}</ref> 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.<ref name=nbjc/> In 2017, he joined the faculty of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta as an associate professor of medicine and medical director of student and employee health.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2021|title=About the Author|url=http://standingonhisshoulders.com/about.html|url-status=dead|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Standing on His Shoulders|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619123759/http://www.standingonhisshoulders.com/about.html|archive-date=June 19, 2015}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 4, 2021|title=The Southern HIV Epidemic|url=https://sma.org/podcasts/the-southern-hiv-epidemic/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221182454/https://sma.org/podcasts/the-southern-hiv-epidemic/|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Southern Medical Association}}</ref> He contributed an essay to ''Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Family affair : what It means to be African American today|editor=Gil L. Robertson IV.|publisher=Bolden|location=Chicago|year=2009|pages=xv, 407|isbn=978-1-932841-35-0 |oclc=234438028|lccn= 2008045716 }}</ref> a 2009 anthology edited by Gil Robertson IV.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/04/20/2_FAMILY_AFFAIR.ART_ART_04-20-09_D3_6JDJB4U.html?sid=101 |title=Editor hopes collection of essays stirs dialogue |last=Williams |first=Sherri |date=April 20, 2009 |work=The Columbus Dispatch |access-date=20 January 2010 |archive-date=26 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126182428/https://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/04/20/2_FAMILY_AFFAIR.ART_ART_04-20-09_D3_6JDJB4U.html?sid=101 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2015, he published ''Standing on His Shoulders'', a memoir about life lessons he learned from his father.<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 11, 2015|title=New Books: Standing on His Shoulders|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/book-report/standing-his-shoulders|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221191937/https://paw.princeton.edu/book-report/standing-his-shoulders|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly}}</ref>
==References== <references/>
==External links== * [https://morehousehealthcare.com/physicians/medicine/malebranche-david.html About David Malebranche], Morehouse Healthcare, 2021
{{DEFAULTSORT:Malebranche, David J.}} Category:American people of Haitian descent Category:Medical doctors from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Living people Category:Emory University faculty Category:1969 births