| Ghoulem Berrah | |
| Birth Date: | May 29, 1938 |
| Death Date: | March 4, 2011 |
| Birth Place: | Aïn Beïda, Algeria |
| Death Place: | Miami, Florida |
| Education: | MD and PhD |
| Alma Mater: | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Occupation: | Ambassador Microbiologist Physician |
Ghoulem Berrah (1938-2011) was an Ivorian ambassador and microbiologist.
Ghoulem Berrah was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria on May 29, 1938.[1] After earning his baccalaureate, Berrah started attending his medical school in France. While there he was the co-founder of the Association of North African Muslim Students, an anti-colonial civil rights association, and joined the Algerian Revolution.[2] He received a master's degree in 1961 and PhD in Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1963.
As a physician, Berrah worked in Missour, Morocco for the Ministry of Health. As a researcher, Berrah worked on the process of inhibition in DNA synthesis at the Indiana University. In 1963, he became a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1965, Berrah became an adviser to the Foreign Ministry of Côte d'Ivoire and a close counselor for President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[3] As a part of this work, he was part of the Ivory Coast delegation to United Nations General Assembly, the OAU,[4] and was a special assistant to the president,[5] and later Ambassador, until 1993. In this role, he worked to further the nation's foreign affairs policy,[6] including diplomatic overtures to foreign leaders and working on Israeli-Palestinian relations.[7] In 1966, Berrah was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences. Berrah died on March 4, 2011, in Miami, Florida.[8]