Laura Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3937157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Advocates for Youth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5236-2703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evaluation of a diabetes decentralization program in rural Madagascar using the RE-AIM framework
Diabetes is a significant cause of disabilities and deaths in Africa. In Madagascar, diabetes causes an estimated 5,000 deaths yearly. There are many barriers to diabetes care in Madagascar, and a key barrier is health systems readiness to provide care, especially in rural areas. To mitigate this, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Pivot and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) jointly implemented a diabetes decentralization program in Ifana…
Perception of Having Enough Information to Make Contraceptive Decisions
Association between County Health Rankings Factors and County-level Genitourinary Cancer Mortality
The role of ironic discourse in the construction of an impersonated speaker’s ethos
The satirical news program is a television genre that recycles discourse from traditional media sources, with the aim of creating a distorted staging of information. We propose a dialogic and enunciative reflection on verbal irony, particularly as it relates to the ethos developed within fictional interactions in the parodic sequences of a satirical news broadcast. We are interested specifically in the relationship between (i) the dialogic intera…
One Size Fits All? Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Happiness in Schools
Background/Context While an abundance of evidence demonstrates how unequal conditions in schools contribute to unequal learning outcomes, the extent to which students’ affective experiences of schooling reflect similar incongruences warrants further inquiry. Framing this discussion are empirical accounts and popular narratives of schools as socializing institutions that ascribe particular gendered, racialized, and otherwise socially defined ident…
Stage at diagnosis and survival in patients with cancer and a pre-existing mental illness
Multicultural Matters
Five decades of rhetoric and reform in teacher education underscore the importance of multicultural education in preparing teachers to meet the needs of all students. State and national policy initiatives targeting multicultural education build on two assumptions: first, that preservice teachers lack the multicultural awareness to function as culturally responsive educators, and second, that higher levels of multicultural awareness correspond wit…
Betwixt and between
Conflict prevention is a primary objective of EU external action (European Council, 2011). This article analyses how EU actors understand “conflict prevention” and finds the term is used to mean both a way in which the EU acts in the world, and also a set of discrete activities: conflict analysis, early warning and mediation. Adapting Whitman and Wolff, the article analyses EU capabilities for both concepts of “conflict prevention”: to engage, to…
The EU as a Multi-Mediator
In the 1990s, the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) experienced complex wars involving local, national and regional combatants and conflict drivers, which formally ended in 2002. Violence continued and the government and rebel groups negotiated a series of peace deals, most recently in 2013. The European Union ( EU ) has been engaged in the DRC since the 1990s. This article proposes a model for conceptualizing EU mediation engagement within th…
Women Peace and Security
Prevalence and Patterns of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Canadian Youth
Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is a well-known risk factor for weight gain, tooth decay, and metabolic syndrome. Rates of SSB consumption in Nunavut specifically, have been noted to be exceptionally high. This study describes consumption rates of specific foods and beverages, with a focus on SSBs, among adolescents in Nunavut, northern Canada as a whole, and the Canadian provinces, using data from the 2010 and 2014 cycles…
Perspectives among a Diverse Sample of Women on the Possibility of Obtaining Oral Contraceptives Over the Counter
Reform or Business as Usual? EU Security Provision in Complex Contexts
The European Union (EU) is to promote various principles, including peace and justice for human rights violations in its external action, according to the Treaty. In fragile contexts, peace and justice are considered fundamental for contributing to reform that addresses the causes of conflict and prevents recurrence. This paper draws on field research to examine whether and how the EU translated these principles of peace and justice into policy a…
Adolescent Physical Fighting in Ghana, Their Demographic and Social Characteristics
Physical fighting is an important behavioral concern of public health importance among adolescents worldwide. The present study examines the patterns and correlates of physical fighting among a school-based population in a low-income country setting. Data on 6235 adolescents aged 11-16 years were derived from the Republic of Ghana contributions to the Global School-based Health Survey. Three thresholds of participation in a physical fight during …
Power shared and justice shelved
The Global Accord (2002) ended the Congo War, contributed to the creation of the Third Republic and influenced subsequent peace agreements. This article analyses how justice for human rights violations was included in the Global Accord and later peace deals. It assesses how the power-sharing aspects of these agreements affected the pursuit of accountability, and finds they undermined transitional justice efforts and contributed to continued abuse…
Joy Kogawa's Obasan
This article examines Joy Kogawa's popular Canadian novel, Obasan (1981), in the context of the establishment of the Canadian Constitution (1982), the official Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988) and the history of Japanese-Canadian internment during the Second World War. It argues against the notion that the narrator of the novel, Naomi Nakane, moves from silence to speech and overcomes the traumas of her past. Likewise, the article argues that…
Multicultural Matters
Five decades of rhetoric and reform in teacher education underscore the importance of multicultural education in preparing teachers to meet the needs of all students. State and national policy initiatives targeting multicultural education build on two assumptions: first, that preservice teachers lack the multicultural awareness to function as culturally responsive educators, and second, that higher levels of multicultural awareness correspond wit…
Women Peace and Security
Betwixt and between
Conflict prevention is a primary objective of EU external action (European Council, 2011). This article analyses how EU actors understand “conflict prevention” and finds the term is used to mean both a way in which the EU acts in the world, and also a set of discrete activities: conflict analysis, early warning and mediation. Adapting Whitman and Wolff, the article analyses EU capabilities for both concepts of “conflict prevention”: to engage, to…
Power shared and justice shelved
The Global Accord (2002) ended the Congo War, contributed to the creation of the Third Republic and influenced subsequent peace agreements. This article analyses how justice for human rights violations was included in the Global Accord and later peace deals. It assesses how the power-sharing aspects of these agreements affected the pursuit of accountability, and finds they undermined transitional justice efforts and contributed to continued abuse…
Reform or Business as Usual? EU Security Provision in Complex Contexts
The European Union (EU) is to promote various principles, including peace and justice for human rights violations in its external action, according to the Treaty. In fragile contexts, peace and justice are considered fundamental for contributing to reform that addresses the causes of conflict and prevents recurrence. This paper draws on field research to examine whether and how the EU translated these principles of peace and justice into policy a…
Adolescent Physical Fighting in Ghana, Their Demographic and Social Characteristics
Physical fighting is an important behavioral concern of public health importance among adolescents worldwide. The present study examines the patterns and correlates of physical fighting among a school-based population in a low-income country setting. Data on 6235 adolescents aged 11-16 years were derived from the Republic of Ghana contributions to the Global School-based Health Survey. Three thresholds of participation in a physical fight during …
The EU as a Multi-Mediator
In the 1990s, the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) experienced complex wars involving local, national and regional combatants and conflict drivers, which formally ended in 2002. Violence continued and the government and rebel groups negotiated a series of peace deals, most recently in 2013. The European Union ( EU ) has been engaged in the DRC since the 1990s. This article proposes a model for conceptualizing EU mediation engagement within th…
Joy Kogawa's Obasan
This article examines Joy Kogawa's popular Canadian novel, Obasan (1981), in the context of the establishment of the Canadian Constitution (1982), the official Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988) and the history of Japanese-Canadian internment during the Second World War. It argues against the notion that the narrator of the novel, Naomi Nakane, moves from silence to speech and overcomes the traumas of her past. Likewise, the article argues that…
Joy Kogawa's Obasan
This article examines Joy Kogawa's popular Canadian novel, Obasan (1981), in the context of the establishment of the Canadian Constitution (1982), the official Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988) and the history of Japanese-Canadian internment during the Second World War. It argues against the notion that the narrator of the novel, Naomi Nakane, moves from silence to speech and overcomes the traumas of her past. Likewise, the article argues that…
Power shared and justice shelved
The Global Accord (2002) ended the Congo War, contributed to the creation of the Third Republic and influenced subsequent peace agreements. This article analyses how justice for human rights violations was included in the Global Accord and later peace deals. It assesses how the power-sharing aspects of these agreements affected the pursuit of accountability, and finds they undermined transitional justice efforts and contributed to continued abuse…
Adolescent Physical Fighting in Ghana, Their Demographic and Social Characteristics
Physical fighting is an important behavioral concern of public health importance among adolescents worldwide. The present study examines the patterns and correlates of physical fighting among a school-based population in a low-income country setting. Data on 6235 adolescents aged 11-16 years were derived from the Republic of Ghana contributions to the Global School-based Health Survey. Three thresholds of participation in a physical fight during …
Perspectives among a Diverse Sample of Women on the Possibility of Obtaining Oral Contraceptives Over the Counter
Reform or Business as Usual? EU Security Provision in Complex Contexts
The European Union (EU) is to promote various principles, including peace and justice for human rights violations in its external action, according to the Treaty. In fragile contexts, peace and justice are considered fundamental for contributing to reform that addresses the causes of conflict and prevents recurrence. This paper draws on field research to examine whether and how the EU translated these principles of peace and justice into policy a…
Prevalence and Patterns of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Canadian Youth
Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is a well-known risk factor for weight gain, tooth decay, and metabolic syndrome. Rates of SSB consumption in Nunavut specifically, have been noted to be exceptionally high. This study describes consumption rates of specific foods and beverages, with a focus on SSBs, among adolescents in Nunavut, northern Canada as a whole, and the Canadian provinces, using data from the 2010 and 2014 cycles…
Betwixt and between
Conflict prevention is a primary objective of EU external action (European Council, 2011). This article analyses how EU actors understand “conflict prevention” and finds the term is used to mean both a way in which the EU acts in the world, and also a set of discrete activities: conflict analysis, early warning and mediation. Adapting Whitman and Wolff, the article analyses EU capabilities for both concepts of “conflict prevention”: to engage, to…
The EU as a Multi-Mediator
In the 1990s, the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) experienced complex wars involving local, national and regional combatants and conflict drivers, which formally ended in 2002. Violence continued and the government and rebel groups negotiated a series of peace deals, most recently in 2013. The European Union ( EU ) has been engaged in the DRC since the 1990s. This article proposes a model for conceptualizing EU mediation engagement within th…
Women Peace and Security
Multicultural Matters
Five decades of rhetoric and reform in teacher education underscore the importance of multicultural education in preparing teachers to meet the needs of all students. State and national policy initiatives targeting multicultural education build on two assumptions: first, that preservice teachers lack the multicultural awareness to function as culturally responsive educators, and second, that higher levels of multicultural awareness correspond wit…
Stage at diagnosis and survival in patients with cancer and a pre-existing mental illness
The role of ironic discourse in the construction of an impersonated speaker’s ethos
The satirical news program is a television genre that recycles discourse from traditional media sources, with the aim of creating a distorted staging of information. We propose a dialogic and enunciative reflection on verbal irony, particularly as it relates to the ethos developed within fictional interactions in the parodic sequences of a satirical news broadcast. We are interested specifically in the relationship between (i) the dialogic intera…
One Size Fits All? Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Happiness in Schools
Background/Context While an abundance of evidence demonstrates how unequal conditions in schools contribute to unequal learning outcomes, the extent to which students’ affective experiences of schooling reflect similar incongruences warrants further inquiry. Framing this discussion are empirical accounts and popular narratives of schools as socializing institutions that ascribe particular gendered, racialized, and otherwise socially defined ident…
Perception of Having Enough Information to Make Contraceptive Decisions
Association between County Health Rankings Factors and County-level Genitourinary Cancer Mortality
Evaluation of a diabetes decentralization program in rural Madagascar using the RE-AIM framework
Diabetes is a significant cause of disabilities and deaths in Africa. In Madagascar, diabetes causes an estimated 5,000 deaths yearly. There are many barriers to diabetes care in Madagascar, and a key barrier is health systems readiness to provide care, especially in rural areas. To mitigate this, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Pivot and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) jointly implemented a diabetes decentralization program in Ifana…
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