Educated in the Soviet Union, she graduated from a medical school in Leningrad in 1983 and earned her doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1997.
[1] After marrying in 1983 in Moscow, Brahim and her husband decided not to return to Chad, where Hissène Habré had seized power.
[1] After Idriss Déby rose to power in Chad, the government appointed Brahim's husband as ambassador to Russia in 1991.
Brahim continued her education at Moscow's Russian Academy of Sciences and wrote a thesis under a woman medical professor, receiving a doctorate in 1996.
She regarded public health programs as important and worked with fellow Chadian pediatrician Grace Kodindo from 1997 to 2006.