The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

#1 on summer reading list: “It is difficult to think of a more timely and concerning book.” – Krisztina Csortea, International Affairs

“Reveals how some uses of data can retrench existing injustices…call[s] for nothing short of a revolution in the field.” – Martha Lincoln, BMJ Global Health

“Davis examines the global fight against HIV/AIDS to both acknowledge the necessity of data in global health and thoughtfully critique how data are gathered, transformed, and operationalised.” – Hanna Huffstetler and Benjamin Mason Meier, Global Public Health

Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders. Columbia University Press, 2005.

“A vivid and beautifully told ethnography” – Tai Culture

“A path-breaking study of the logic of borders” – Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia

“Original and deeply probing” — James C. Scott , Yale University

“Playful, scholarly and lyrical” — Jonathan Spence, Yale University

Selected articles – full list on ResearchGate

“Political determinants of digital health: Beyond the rainbow”. Health Promotion International, April 2025.

with Matthew Canfield. “Multistakeholderism and Human Rights: Call for an anthropological approach.” Journal of Human Rights Practice, March 2025.

with Javier Guerrero-C, Nomtika Mjwana, Sebasitan Leon Giraldo. “Brave global spaces: Researching digital health and human rights through transnational participatory action research.” Journal of Responsible Technology, December 2024.

Digital Health and Rights Project Consortium. “Navigating digital: A community engagement study of young adults, mobile phones, and sexual and reproductive health in Bangladesh and Colombia.” Health and Human Rights Journal, November 2024.

with Tony Sandset, Trang Pham, and Dong Do Dang. “Sexual and reproductive health and digital human rights: A study with people living with HIV and key populations in Vietnam.” Culture, Health and Sexuality,

with Trang Pham, Irene Kpodo, et al. “Digital health and human rights of young adults in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam: A qualitative participatory action research study.” BMJ Global Health, May 2023.

with Yi-Roe Tan, Anurag Agrawal, et al. “A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond data collection.” BMJ Global Health, June 2022.

with the Digital Health and Rights Project Consortium. “Towards digital justice: Participatory action research in global digital health.” BMJ Global Health, May 2022.

with George Ayala, Laurel Sprague, et al. “Peer- and community-led responses to HIV: A scoping review.” PLOS One, December 2021.

“The surprising persistence of human rights defenders in China.” In M. Foblets, M. Goodale, M. Sapignoli, O. Zenker, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Oxford University Press, 2020.

“The Trojan horse: Digital health, human rights, and global health governance”. Health and Human Rights Journal, vol. 22 no. 2, December 2020.

with Doris Schopper and Julia Epps. “Monitoring Interventions to respond to sexual violence in humanitarian contexts”, Global Health Governance 12(1): Spring 2018, 34-46.

“The uncounted: Politics of data and visibility in global health.” International Journal of Human Rights: Sustainable Development Goals and human rights special issue, ed. Inga Winkler. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1348707. Winner of the International Geneva Award 2017

with William C. Goedel, John Emerson, Brooke S. Guven. “Punitive laws, key population size estimates, and Global AIDS Response Progress Reports: An ecological study of 154 countries.” Journal of the International AIDS Society, 20.1, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.00.00.1302680.