Sara L M Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 202895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara L M Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara L M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0914-3529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating technology-facilitated abuse: A participatory action research study with young adults living with HIV and key populations in Kenya
For young adults living with HIV and key populations, digital platforms are essential tools for accessing health information, services, and navigating stigmatized health needs. However, these technologies expose them to digital harms such as technology-facilitated abuse (TFA). Research on TFA has largely focussed on gender-based violence with limited exploration of experiences of criminalised and stigmatised populations. This paper reports findin…
Political determinants of digital health: Beyond the rainbow
In 2021, the World Health Organization issued its first global strategy on digital technologies and health, calling on member states to develop their own national digital health strategies. However, the normative tools that guide the development of these strategies do not prompt member states to consider how broader political factors, such as law and policy, governance, and civic engagement, could shape health outcomes in the digital age. The dig…
Sexual and reproductive health and digital human rights: A study with people living with HIV and key populations in Vietnam
This study draws from qualitative research conducted using a participatory action framework with 47 young adults who identified as people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, transgender, non-binary, or sex workers in Vietnam. The research objectives were to explore their experiences using mobile phones to access sexual and reproductive (SRH) health information and support and the impact of the digital turn in health on their autonomy, pri…
Multistakeholderism and Human Rights: A Call for an Anthropological Approach
Multistakeholder processes (MSPs) are fast becoming the primary form of collaboration across many fields of global governance. Proponents argue MSPs enable meaningful participation, transparency, and collective ownership of decisions, while critics claim they dilute state accountability and empower private actors at the expense of the public good. To date, however, there has been little study of the experience of civil society and community advoc…
Digital health and human rights of young adults in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam: A qualitative participatory action research study
INTRODUCTION: Digital health offers the potential to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries. However, experts have warned about threats to human rights. METHODS: We used qualitative methods to investigate how young adults in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam use their mobile phones to access online health information and peer support, and what they see as the effect on their human rights. We applied a transnational participatory act…
A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond data collection
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, defined here as a practice of public participation and collaboration in all aspects of scientific research to increase knowledge and build trust with governments and researchers, is a crucial approach to promoting community enga…
Towards digital justice: Participatory action research in global digital health
Pharmocracy, Bureaucracy, Advocacy: Three Studies of Global Health
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health
In the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has to do with stigma, money, and data. Global funding for AIDS response is declining. Tough choices must be made: some people will win and some will lose. Global aid agencies and governments use health data to make these choices. While aid agencies prioritize a shrinking list of countries, many governments deny that sex workers, men who have sex with men…
The uncounted: Politics of data and visibility in global health
This article explores the political and economic factors that are driving shifting data in the context of HIV. In order to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 on health, global health agencies such as UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and PEPFAR all rely on HIV data routinely reported by countries. This data is not produced in a political vacuum. Key populations vulnerable to HIV (men who have …
Compulsory drug detention in East and Southeast Asia: Response from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Olympic Challenges for Chinese Grassroots Groups
Dance, Or Else: The Politics of Ethnic Culture on China's Southwest Borders
An American researcher examines how the requirements of political assimilation have threatened the unique culture of China's Tai minority, and the Tai response.In 1997 I arrived on China's southwest borders planning to spend a year researching ethnic minority folklore. The only problem, as I discovered when I arrived, was that there didn't appear to be any
Shifting From Academe to Human Rights Work
Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais
At this time, word arrived that the Lord Buddha had descended from the heavens to live among people, and that he had brought with him good fortune, wisdom, and a written alphabet. Thereupon, everyone went to the Lord Buddha to request the written alphabet. The different ethnic groups each took their own tools for preserving the alphabet: Hans took paper, Tais took palm leaves, and Akhas took buffalo hides.' They followed the same route, climbing …
The Hawaiification of Sipsongbanna: Orality, Power, and Cultural Survival in Southwest China
Near the Burmese border, ethnic Chinese Tai villagers perform zhangkhap songs based on Buddhist epics and improvised oral poetry. Repressed from the 1950s as through the 'as, zhanghap has revived dramatically in recent years. Tourists are taking notice, but this may not be good news
Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais
At this time, word arrived that the Lord Buddha had descended from the heavens to live among people, and that he had brought with him good fortune, wisdom, and a written alphabet. Thereupon, everyone went to the Lord Buddha to request the written alphabet. The different ethnic groups each took their own tools for preserving the alphabet: Hans took paper, Tais took palm leaves, and Akhas took buffalo hides.' They followed the same route, climbing …
The uncounted: Politics of data and visibility in global health
This article explores the political and economic factors that are driving shifting data in the context of HIV. In order to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 on health, global health agencies such as UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and PEPFAR all rely on HIV data routinely reported by countries. This data is not produced in a political vacuum. Key populations vulnerable to HIV (men who have …
Shifting From Academe to Human Rights Work
The Hawaiification of Sipsongbanna: Orality, Power, and Cultural Survival in Southwest China
Near the Burmese border, ethnic Chinese Tai villagers perform zhangkhap songs based on Buddhist epics and improvised oral poetry. Repressed from the 1950s as through the 'as, zhanghap has revived dramatically in recent years. Tourists are taking notice, but this may not be good news
Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais
At this time, word arrived that the Lord Buddha had descended from the heavens to live among people, and that he had brought with him good fortune, wisdom, and a written alphabet. Thereupon, everyone went to the Lord Buddha to request the written alphabet. The different ethnic groups each took their own tools for preserving the alphabet: Hans took paper, Tais took palm leaves, and Akhas took buffalo hides.' They followed the same route, climbing …
Shifting From Academe to Human Rights Work
Olympic Challenges for Chinese Grassroots Groups
Dance, Or Else: The Politics of Ethnic Culture on China's Southwest Borders
An American researcher examines how the requirements of political assimilation have threatened the unique culture of China's Tai minority, and the Tai response.In 1997 I arrived on China's southwest borders planning to spend a year researching ethnic minority folklore. The only problem, as I discovered when I arrived, was that there didn't appear to be any
Compulsory drug detention in East and Southeast Asia: Response from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The uncounted: Politics of data and visibility in global health
This article explores the political and economic factors that are driving shifting data in the context of HIV. In order to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 on health, global health agencies such as UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and PEPFAR all rely on HIV data routinely reported by countries. This data is not produced in a political vacuum. Key populations vulnerable to HIV (men who have …
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health
In the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has to do with stigma, money, and data. Global funding for AIDS response is declining. Tough choices must be made: some people will win and some will lose. Global aid agencies and governments use health data to make these choices. While aid agencies prioritize a shrinking list of countries, many governments deny that sex workers, men who have sex with men…
Pharmocracy, Bureaucracy, Advocacy: Three Studies of Global Health
A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond data collection
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, defined here as a practice of public participation and collaboration in all aspects of scientific research to increase knowledge and build trust with governments and researchers, is a crucial approach to promoting community enga…
Towards digital justice: Participatory action research in global digital health
Digital health and human rights of young adults in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam: A qualitative participatory action research study
INTRODUCTION: Digital health offers the potential to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries. However, experts have warned about threats to human rights. METHODS: We used qualitative methods to investigate how young adults in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam use their mobile phones to access online health information and peer support, and what they see as the effect on their human rights. We applied a transnational participatory act…
Political determinants of digital health: Beyond the rainbow
In 2021, the World Health Organization issued its first global strategy on digital technologies and health, calling on member states to develop their own national digital health strategies. However, the normative tools that guide the development of these strategies do not prompt member states to consider how broader political factors, such as law and policy, governance, and civic engagement, could shape health outcomes in the digital age. The dig…
Sexual and reproductive health and digital human rights: A study with people living with HIV and key populations in Vietnam
This study draws from qualitative research conducted using a participatory action framework with 47 young adults who identified as people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, transgender, non-binary, or sex workers in Vietnam. The research objectives were to explore their experiences using mobile phones to access sexual and reproductive (SRH) health information and support and the impact of the digital turn in health on their autonomy, pri…
Multistakeholderism and Human Rights: A Call for an Anthropological Approach
Multistakeholder processes (MSPs) are fast becoming the primary form of collaboration across many fields of global governance. Proponents argue MSPs enable meaningful participation, transparency, and collective ownership of decisions, while critics claim they dilute state accountability and empower private actors at the expense of the public good. To date, however, there has been little study of the experience of civil society and community advoc…
Navigating technology-facilitated abuse: A participatory action research study with young adults living with HIV and key populations in Kenya
For young adults living with HIV and key populations, digital platforms are essential tools for accessing health information, services, and navigating stigmatized health needs. However, these technologies expose them to digital harms such as technology-facilitated abuse (TFA). Research on TFA has largely focussed on gender-based violence with limited exploration of experiences of criminalised and stigmatised populations. This paper reports findin…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Health care (4 works)