Adjunct Professor Sara Davies

Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law

PhD (University of Queensland)

Dr Sara Davies is a QUT Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. Dr Davies also holds the following roles:

• Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
• Program Director of the Prevention of Mass Atrocities Program in the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland.
• Co-Program Leader of International Law and Global Governance Research Program, Faculty of Law
• Co-Stream Leader of Global Health and Regulation Stream in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.

Dr Davies currently holds two ARC grants - Future Fellowship and Discovery Project  - both awarded in late 2013:

• The ARC Future Fellow project Security and Health Diplomacy: A Necessary Partnership?, explores the factors which determine whether the portrayal of international health issues as security threats succeed or fail in inspiring cooperative policy and investment, focusing on five distinct global health programmes (GOARN, GAVI Alliance, Global Fund, Framework for Tobacco Control and Safe Motherhood Initiative).
• The ARC Discovery Project, Preventing Mass Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Asia Pacific, led by Dr Davies and Professor Jacqui True, Monash University, builds on her previous work on the prevention of mass atrocities. This project seeks to identify the factors associated with heightened risk of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV), especially the relationship between endemic violence against women and extreme cases of SGBV in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr Davies' two previous ARC Discovery Projects explored regional cooperation concerning infectious disease control in South East Asia (this project included the award of an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2013), and early warning strategies to prevent mass atrocities (awarded with co-CI Professor Alex Bellamy, Griffith University, 2009-2012).  Dr Davies has written two single authored books, and has a new book published with Johns Hopkins University Press (co-authored with Adam Kamradt-Scott and Simon Rushton) Disease Diplomacy. She has edited six books; and is author of over 25 articles in internationally recognised journals. She is the co-founder and co-editor of quarterly issued journal Global Responsibility to Protect; and co-founder of the blog, Protection Gateway.

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