Professor Sara E. Davies
Dr Sara Davies is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia. She is committed to upholding the proud tradition of the AJIA as a forum for the highest quality of debate about Australia’s role in the world.
Sara’s research interests are in global health governance, health diplomacy and prevention of sexual violence in conflict situations. Sara Davies has published in Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, and International Affairs. Sara is author of Global Politics of Health (Polity) and Legitimatizing Rejection: International Refugee Law in Asia (Martinus Nijhoff), and co-author of Disease Diplomacy (Johns Hopkins University Press) with Adam Kamradt-Scott and Simon Rushton.
Research interests
- Conflict prevention
- Global health governance
- International Relations
- International refugee law
- Political Science
- Women Peace and Security
Recent publications
- Bennett, B., Cohen, I. G., Davies, S., Gostin, L. O., Hill, P. S., Mankad, A., & Phelan, A. L. (2017). Future-proofing global health: Governance of priorities. Global Public Health, 1–9.
- Davies, S. (2017). Advocating Global Health Security. In Global Insecurity: Futures of Global Chaos and Governance (pp. 253–272).
- Davies, S. (2017). Asylum Seekers and Australias Security. In Navigating the New International Disorder: Australia in World Affairs 2011 – 2015 (pp. 109–122).
- Davies, S. (2017). Infectious disease outbreak response: Mind the rights gap. Medical Law Review, 25(2), 270–292.
- Davies, S. (2017). Making these beautiful resolutions real: Sara E. Davies in conversation with Devanna de la Puente.International Feminist Journal of Politics, 19(1), 112–117.
- Davies, S. (2017). Remembering the human in Asia-Pacific human security. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), 16–19.
- Davies, S. (2017). Women at Risk and Their Right to Asylum in Australia. In The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South (pp. 87–104).
- Davies, S., & True, J. (2017). Connecting the dots: Pre-existing patterns of gender inequality and the likelihood of widespread and systematic sexual violence. Global Responsibility to Protect, 9(1), 65–85.
- Davies, S., & True, J. (2017). Norm entrepreneurship in foreign policy: William Hague and the prevention of sexual violence in conflict. Foreign Policy Analysis, 13(3), 701–721.
- Davies, S., & True, J. (2017). The politics of counting and reporting conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: the case of Myanmar. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 19(1), 4–21.
- Davies, S., & True, J. (2017). When there is no justice: gendered violence and harm in post-conflict Sri Lanka. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(9), 1320–1336.
- Davies, S. (2016). Addressing the Gender Gap in R2P. In The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (pp. 489–58).
- Davies, S., & Bennett, B. (2016). A gendered human rights analysis of Ebola and Zika: locating gender in global health emergencies. International Affairs, 92(5), 1041–1060.
- Davies, S., & Rushton, S. (2016). Public health emergencies: a new peacekeeping mission? Insights from UNMIL’s role in the Liberia Ebola outbreak. Third World Quarterly, 37(3), 319–435.
- Davies, S., True, J., & Tanyang, M. (2016). How womens silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict. Gender & Development, 24(3), 459–473.