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.
[2][3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] He contributed an essay to Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today,[6] a 2009 anthology edited by Gil Robertson IV.
[7] In 2015, he published Standing on His Shoulders, a memoir about life lessons he learned from his father.