Author Archives: Meg Davis, Ph.D.
The Persistence of Chinese Rights Defenders
Scholars have recently critiqued human rights as a purely Eurocentric construct that has failed to find wider appeal and is now on the decline. Some cite the apparent success of China’s repressive political regime in support of this argument, but … Continue reading
Enter the Cyborgs: Health & human rights in the digital age
If we’re now all cyborgs, what use for human rights? Continue reading
Right On 5: Why are we failing to end AIDS? Engaging with the politics of data
Experts explore the politics of data, human rights and HIV for the Right On podcast. Continue reading
New paperback! And a chat with activists in the Uncounted
Paperback coming out, and recordings of a chat with civil society activists interviewed in the Uncounted. Continue reading
The Politics of Global Health Data – a chat with Oxford RightsUp podcast
In the midst of COVID-19 lockdown, a chat about how politics shapes health data. Continue reading
The silence at AIDS 2020 Virtual
Reprinted from Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal. For decades, the International AIDS Conference has successfully convened a massive biannual meeting, bringing together a diverse community of scientists, researchers, activists and officials, as well as a smattering of celebrities. At a … Continue reading
Why are we failing to end HIV?
Reprinted from Medicus Mundi International blog, Med in Switzerland. Continue reading
Health aid accountability and the politics of data
This webinar was organized on June 26, 2020 by the Kampala Initiative: Challenging Realities of “Aid”. Speakers included Dr. John Waters (Caribbean Vulnerable Communities) and Hayden Barthelmy (GrenCHAP), civil society activists from the Caribbean who successfully conducted an HIV study … Continue reading
Online events on the Uncounted
Three events, including one featuring the activists in the book discussing their work. Continue reading
Right On 4: Meet the speakers
Introducing Jolovan Wham, Shirin Heidari, and Marina Smelyanskaya, for episode 4 of the Right On Podcast. Continue reading
