Dr Katy Davis

Biography

 

Katy Davis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and social scientist. Katy’s research focuses on issues of equity relating to disasters and health, with particular attention to protracted crises and ‘creeping’ disasters, including antimicrobial resistance, climate change, conflict and displacement. She currently works within the GEAR up consortium, a Fleming Fund regional grant that supports the mainstreaming of an intersectional equity lens into antimicrobial resistance surveillance and interventions.

 

Katy has an MSc in Global Health and Development from University College London and a PhD from the University of Leeds on climate change and health. She has experience using qualitative and participatory research methods and has worked across a range of disciplines to deliver impactful, policy-focused research projects, including contributing to social science themes within large multi-country research partnerships. She is the co-recipient of a Tackling Infections: Skills & Mobility Accelerator grant which will support a partnership between GEAR up and the World Health Organisation antimicrobial resistance division.

Katy has a commitment to carrying out research that has social justice, equity and participation as an explicit part of the agenda.

 

Research interests

Katy’s main research interests are, health in the context of disasters, climate change and conflict, protracted crises and creeping disasters, health equity, intersectionality and antimicrobial resistance, qualitative research and participatory methods, and social and environmental justice.

Teaching

Katy teaches and supervises students on health equity in disasters, climate change and antimicrobial resistance.

Selected research publications

Antimicrobial resistance, equity and justice in low- and middle-income countries: an intersectional critical interpretive synthesis – Journal: Nature Communications – Published: 13th October 2025

Contested framings of climate change and health in the Arctic: A narrative analysis of health in Canadian government climate change policy affecting Inuit Nunangat – Journal: Geoforum – Published: 22nd July 2025

Gender and (In) Security in African Cities: A Crosscutting Report – Published: 1st April 2025

Expanding the definition of ‘vulnerability’ through relational, respectful and accountable social science research in the context of climate change – Published: 1st January 2025

Power in environmental peacebuilding – Journal: World Development Sustainability – Published: 1st December 2023

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