Dr. Sara (Meg) Davis, PhD

Sara (Meg) Davis is a leading expert on global health and human rights, with a specific expertise on digital health and human rights. She is a special advisor at the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and teaches courses on sexual violence in conflicts and emergencies for humanitarian program managers at the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies. Davis was the first senior advisor on human rights at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; founder of Asia Catalyst, a US-based human rights group; and a researcher on China for Human Rights Watch. Davis is author of two books: The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health (Cambridge, 2020) and Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders (Columbia, 2005) as well as an online adventure story for kids, Monkey on a Mission. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania. She has been interviewed in New Republic, BBC, Radio France International, and hosts the Right On Podcast. She is a dual US and UK citizen and speaks English, French and Chinese (Mandarin).

Sub-specialities:
Politics of global health data
Digital health and human rights
HIV and human rights
COVID-19 and human rights
Sexual violence in conflict settings