Dr Alicia Davis

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociology)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

email: Alicia.Davis@glasgow.ac.uk

Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, Rm 5122, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1347-7708

Biography

I am a cultural anthropologist and lecturer in Global Health at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing (IHW) and Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences. I specialize on issues related to health and disease, environment, conservation, gender,  livelihoods, and community-based impact-driven methods in East Africa. 

My graduate work was in environmental and cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder where I explored the histories, memories, and risks of communities living on the boarders of national parks and protected areas in Tanzania. Ater a brief stint at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska, working with Native Alaskan communities on subsitence policy,  I returned to academia to do postdoctoral work on land rights, women's empowerment, and gender based violence in pastoralist communities in Tanzania. 

Before starting at IWH and Sociology here at UoG, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Geography department exploring the impacts of zoonotic diseases on pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in East Africa under a BBSRC, ESRC, and DFID funded Zoonoses in Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) project.

I have several research interests and projects spanning global health and conservation, primarily in East Africa. Most of my work falls within a "One Health" framework and is heavily interdisciplinary. Our research teams include veterinary and human health specialists, ecolgists, epidemiologists, economists, geographers, and anthropologists. My projects include topics such as antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, and pastoralist health and wellbeing. I also investigate environmental topics, such as the impact of drought and climate change on pastoralist livelihoods and more broadly on the intersection of health and environment and within social-environmental systems.

I began a grammatically flawed foray into Swahili in 1997, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania and continue to stretch my brain fumbling through the Maasai language (I can at least greet people properly, share the news of the day, and ask for a cup of chai). I am an ardent supporter of interdisciplinary research and of bringing the power of anthropology to broad interdisciplinary teams, like those with natural and health scientists, in order to illuminate the impacts of real world challenges on our everyday lives. 

Research interests

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Most of my work falls within a "One Health" framework and is heavily interdisciplinary. I work with research teams that include veterinary and human health specialists, ecologists, epidemiologists, economists, geographers, and anthropologists.

My main areas of interest include:

  • Global Health & One-Health
    • Intersection of human and animal health and environment within social-environmental systems in East Africa
  • Zoonotic Disease impacts on rural livestock keepers
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Pastoralist livelihoods, health, and wellbeing
  • Environment, conservation, climate change
  • Land use change, policy, impacts
  • Gender
  • Community-based, impact-driven, action-oriented and ethnographic methodologies
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Ethnography

 

Current Projects

I have several ongoing projects in the areas of environment and global health.

SNAP-AMR: Supporting the National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance in Tanzania: We are investigating antimicrobial resistance (MRC funded) as well as on how to build locally specific, participatory and effective health campaigns from the grassroots up.

Operationalizing One-Health Interventions in Tanzania (OOHTZ): Building off of previous work on zoonosis with the SEEDZ/(ZELS) platform we are developing one-health interventions with communities in Northern Tanzania.

Extreme Events as Transformative Factors in Pastoral Social-Ecological Systems: This project looks at the impact of past drought events on livelihoods, governance, and traditional systems of livestock management and land use in Northern Tanzania. (National Science Foundation, USA)

Sustainable Interventions for an Emerging Livestock Disease: We are exploring how to create community-driven livestock health interventions around taenia multiceps a cestode parasite, locally known in Tanzania as "ormilo" or "kizunguzungu". We have been working with a local Tanzanian artist and have created video and print materials for education on the lifecycle of this parastite. Check it out!

 

 

Publications

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Number of items: 22.

2023

Virhia, J. et al. (2023) “If you do not take the medicine and complete the dose…it could cause you more trouble”: bringing awareness, local knowledge and experience into antimicrobial stewardship in Tanzania. Antibiotics, 12(2), 243. (doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12020243) (PMID:36830154) (PMCID:PMC9952761)

Nthambi, M. , Lembo, T. , Davis, A. , Nasuwa, F., Mmbaga, B. T., Matthews, L. and Hanley, N. (2023) Quantifying farmers’ preferences for antimicrobial use for livestock diseases in northern Tanzania. Q Open, 3(1), qoac032. (doi: 10.1093/qopen/qoac032)

2022

de Glanville, W. A. et al. (2022) Inter-epidemic Rift Valley fever virus infection incidence and risks for zoonotic spillover in northern Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(10), e0010871. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010871) (PMID:36306281) (PMCID:PMC9665400)

Myers, J. et al. (2022) Crossover-use of human antibiotics in livestock in agricultural communities: a qualitative cross-country comparison between Uganda, Tanzania and India. Antibiotics, 11(10), 1342. (doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11101342) (PMID:36290000) (PMCID:PMC9598773)

Ahmed, H., Yoder, J., De Glanville, W., Davis, A. , Kibona, T. J. and Cleaveland, S. (2022) Relationships between vaccinations, herd introductions, and livestock losses in Northern Tanzania. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1017/age.2021.11)

Davis, A. , Virhia, J., Bunga, C., Alkara, S., Cleaveland, S. , Yoder, J., Kinung’hi, S. and Lankester, F. (2022) “Using the same hand”: the complex local perceptions of integrated one health based interventions in East Africa. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(4), e0010298. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010298) (PMID:35377878) (PMCID:PMC9009769)

Davis, A. et al. (2022) How public health crises expose systemic, day-to-day health inequalities in low- and-middle income countries: an example from East Africa. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 11(1), 34. (doi: 10.1186/s13756-022-01071-5) (PMID:35164886) (PMCID:PMC8842514)

2021

Davis, A. et al. (2021) "He who relies on his brother’s property dies poor": the complex narratives of livestock care in northern Tanzania. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, 749561. (doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.749561) (PMID:34805339) (PMCID:PMC8595325)

Loosli, K., Davis, A. , Muwonge, A. and Lembo, T. (2021) Addressing antimicrobial resistance by improving access and quality of care—a review of the literature from East Africa. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(7), e0009529. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009529) (PMID:34292932) (PMCID:PMC8297743)

2020

de Glanville, W. A. et al. (2020) Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0229478. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229478) (PMID:33378382) (PMCID:PMC7773236)

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Lankester, F., Davis, A. , Kinung’hi, S., Yoder, J., Bunga, C., Alkara, S., Mzimbiri, I., Cleaveland, S. and Palmer, G. H. (2020) An integrated health delivery platform, targeting soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and canine mediated human rabies, results in cost savings and increased breadth of treatment for STH in remote communities in Tanzania. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1398. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7737-6) (PMID:31660915) (PMCID:PMC6819457)

Davis, A. and Sharp, J. (2020) Rethinking One Health: emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages. Social Science and Medicine, 258, 113093. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113093) (PMID:32531688) (PMCID:PMC7369629)

McCabe, J. T., Leslie, P. and Davis, A. (2020) The emergence of the village and the transformation of traditional institutions: a case study from Northern Tanzania. Human Organization, 79(2), pp. 150-160. (doi: 10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.150)

2019

Davis, A. and Goldman, M. J. (2019) Beyond payments for ecosystem services: considerations of trust, livelihoods and tenure security in community-based conservation projects. Oryx, 53(3), pp. 491-496. (doi: 10.1017/S0030605317000898)

Ahmed, H., Yoder, J., de Glanville, W. A., Davis, A. , Kibona, T. J., Mmbaga, B. T., Lankester, F., Swai, E. S. and Cleaveland, S. (2019) Economic burden of livestock disease and drought in Northern Tanzania. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 11(6), pp. 140-151. (doi: 10.5897/JDAE2018.1028)

Hughes, E. C. et al. (2019) Taenia multiceps coenurosis in Tanzania: a major and under-recognised livestock disease problem in pastoral communities. Veterinary Record, 184(6), 191. (doi: 10.1136/vr.105186) (PMID:30683735)

2017

Cleaveland, S. et al. (2017) One Health contributions towards more effective and equitable approaches to health in low- and middle-income countries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1725), 20160168. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0168) (PMID:28584176) (PMCID:PMC5468693)

Ladbury, G. et al. (2017) One health research in Northern Tanzania – challenges and progress. East African Health Research Journal, 1(1), pp. 8-18. (doi: 10.24248/EAHRJ-D-16-00379)

2016

Lankester, F. and Davis, A. (2016) Pastoralism and wildlife: historical and current perspectives in the East African rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania. Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 35(2), pp. 473-484. (doi: 10.20506/rst.35.2.2536) (PMID:27917978)

Goldman, M. J., Davis, A. and Little, J. (2016) Controlling land they call their own: access and women's empowerment in Northern Tanzania. Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(4), pp. 777-797. (doi: 10.1080/03066150.2015.1130701)

2011

Davis, A. (2011) 'Ha! What is the benefit of living next to the park?'Factors limiting in-migration next to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Conservation and Society, 9(1), pp. 25-34. (doi: 10.4103/0972-4923.79184)

This list was generated on Thu Apr 18 23:39:50 2024 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Research Reports or Papers
Number of items: 22.

Articles

Virhia, J. et al. (2023) “If you do not take the medicine and complete the dose…it could cause you more trouble”: bringing awareness, local knowledge and experience into antimicrobial stewardship in Tanzania. Antibiotics, 12(2), 243. (doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12020243) (PMID:36830154) (PMCID:PMC9952761)

Nthambi, M. , Lembo, T. , Davis, A. , Nasuwa, F., Mmbaga, B. T., Matthews, L. and Hanley, N. (2023) Quantifying farmers’ preferences for antimicrobial use for livestock diseases in northern Tanzania. Q Open, 3(1), qoac032. (doi: 10.1093/qopen/qoac032)

de Glanville, W. A. et al. (2022) Inter-epidemic Rift Valley fever virus infection incidence and risks for zoonotic spillover in northern Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(10), e0010871. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010871) (PMID:36306281) (PMCID:PMC9665400)

Myers, J. et al. (2022) Crossover-use of human antibiotics in livestock in agricultural communities: a qualitative cross-country comparison between Uganda, Tanzania and India. Antibiotics, 11(10), 1342. (doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11101342) (PMID:36290000) (PMCID:PMC9598773)

Ahmed, H., Yoder, J., De Glanville, W., Davis, A. , Kibona, T. J. and Cleaveland, S. (2022) Relationships between vaccinations, herd introductions, and livestock losses in Northern Tanzania. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1017/age.2021.11)

Davis, A. , Virhia, J., Bunga, C., Alkara, S., Cleaveland, S. , Yoder, J., Kinung’hi, S. and Lankester, F. (2022) “Using the same hand”: the complex local perceptions of integrated one health based interventions in East Africa. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(4), e0010298. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010298) (PMID:35377878) (PMCID:PMC9009769)

Davis, A. et al. (2022) How public health crises expose systemic, day-to-day health inequalities in low- and-middle income countries: an example from East Africa. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 11(1), 34. (doi: 10.1186/s13756-022-01071-5) (PMID:35164886) (PMCID:PMC8842514)

Davis, A. et al. (2021) "He who relies on his brother’s property dies poor": the complex narratives of livestock care in northern Tanzania. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, 749561. (doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.749561) (PMID:34805339) (PMCID:PMC8595325)

Loosli, K., Davis, A. , Muwonge, A. and Lembo, T. (2021) Addressing antimicrobial resistance by improving access and quality of care—a review of the literature from East Africa. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(7), e0009529. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009529) (PMID:34292932) (PMCID:PMC8297743)

de Glanville, W. A. et al. (2020) Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0229478. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229478) (PMID:33378382) (PMCID:PMC7773236)

Lankester, F., Davis, A. , Kinung’hi, S., Yoder, J., Bunga, C., Alkara, S., Mzimbiri, I., Cleaveland, S. and Palmer, G. H. (2020) An integrated health delivery platform, targeting soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and canine mediated human rabies, results in cost savings and increased breadth of treatment for STH in remote communities in Tanzania. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1398. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7737-6) (PMID:31660915) (PMCID:PMC6819457)

Davis, A. and Sharp, J. (2020) Rethinking One Health: emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages. Social Science and Medicine, 258, 113093. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113093) (PMID:32531688) (PMCID:PMC7369629)

McCabe, J. T., Leslie, P. and Davis, A. (2020) The emergence of the village and the transformation of traditional institutions: a case study from Northern Tanzania. Human Organization, 79(2), pp. 150-160. (doi: 10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.150)

Davis, A. and Goldman, M. J. (2019) Beyond payments for ecosystem services: considerations of trust, livelihoods and tenure security in community-based conservation projects. Oryx, 53(3), pp. 491-496. (doi: 10.1017/S0030605317000898)

Ahmed, H., Yoder, J., de Glanville, W. A., Davis, A. , Kibona, T. J., Mmbaga, B. T., Lankester, F., Swai, E. S. and Cleaveland, S. (2019) Economic burden of livestock disease and drought in Northern Tanzania. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 11(6), pp. 140-151. (doi: 10.5897/JDAE2018.1028)

Hughes, E. C. et al. (2019) Taenia multiceps coenurosis in Tanzania: a major and under-recognised livestock disease problem in pastoral communities. Veterinary Record, 184(6), 191. (doi: 10.1136/vr.105186) (PMID:30683735)

Cleaveland, S. et al. (2017) One Health contributions towards more effective and equitable approaches to health in low- and middle-income countries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1725), 20160168. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0168) (PMID:28584176) (PMCID:PMC5468693)

Ladbury, G. et al. (2017) One health research in Northern Tanzania – challenges and progress. East African Health Research Journal, 1(1), pp. 8-18. (doi: 10.24248/EAHRJ-D-16-00379)

Lankester, F. and Davis, A. (2016) Pastoralism and wildlife: historical and current perspectives in the East African rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania. Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 35(2), pp. 473-484. (doi: 10.20506/rst.35.2.2536) (PMID:27917978)

Goldman, M. J., Davis, A. and Little, J. (2016) Controlling land they call their own: access and women's empowerment in Northern Tanzania. Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(4), pp. 777-797. (doi: 10.1080/03066150.2015.1130701)

Davis, A. (2011) 'Ha! What is the benefit of living next to the park?'Factors limiting in-migration next to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Conservation and Society, 9(1), pp. 25-34. (doi: 10.4103/0972-4923.79184)

Research Reports or Papers

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

This list was generated on Thu Apr 18 23:39:50 2024 BST.

Grants

These are my recent externally funded research grants here at UoG

  • Cattle vaccination against malignant catarrhal fever: balancing pastoral livelihoods, food security and ecosystem integrity in the Serengeti, Tanzania
    • BBSRC-Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    • 2020 – 2022
  • Health and social impacts of Covid-19 in Scotland (Scotland in Lockdown)
  • Sustainable Interventions for an Emerging Livestock Disease Problem in East Africa
    • BBSRC-Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    • 2018 - 2019
  • Extreme Events as Transformative Factors in Pastoral Social-Ecological Systems
    • NSF-National Science Foundation, USA
    • 2015 - 2019

 

Supervision

  • Loosli, Kathrin
    Access, use and provision of antibiotics in three agricultural communities of northern Tanzania
  • Makungu, Christina Michael
    Malaria control in Tanzania: exploring human behaviors, activities and risk
  • Nur Muse, Ahmed
    Social Determinants of Health: Understanding Factors Affecting Access to Maternal and Child Healthcare Services by Nomads in Somaliland

Research datasets

Jump to: 2024 | 2022 | 2020 | 2018
Number of items: 6.

2024

Lembo, T. , Davis, A. , Loosli, K., Nthambi, M. , Mutua, E., Laurie, E. , Shirima, G., Hilton, S. , Mmbaga, B. T., Nasuwa, F., Melubo, M., Mnzava, K., Mshana, S., Hanley, N. , Jeremia, H., Muro, F., Seni, J. and Matthews, L. (2024) Supporting the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (SNAP-AMR) data collection tools. [Data Collection]

2022

Davis, A. , Lankester, F. and Cleaveland, S. (2022) Integrating Interventions: Integrating community-directed initiatives against neglected tropical diseases. [Data Collection]

De Glanville, W., Nyarobi, J. M., Kibona, T., Halliday, J. , Thomas, K. M., Allan, K. , Johnson, P. , Davis, A. , Lankester, F., Claxton, J. , Rostal, M. K., Carter, R., de Jong, R. M.F., Rubach, M. P., Crump, J. A., Mmbaga, B. T., Nyasebwa, O. M., Swai, E. S., Willett, B. and Cleaveland, S. (2022) Inter-epidemic Rift Valley fever virus infection in livestock and risks for zoonotic spillover in northern Tanzania. [Data Collection]

2020

De Glanville, W., Davis, A. , Allan, K. , Buza, J., Claxton, J. , Crump, J. A., Halliday, J. , Johnson, P. , Kibona, T. J., Mmbaga, B. T., Swai, E. S., Uzzell, C., Yoder, J., Sharp, J. and Cleaveland, S. (2020) Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania. [Data Collection]

2018

Hughes, E., Kibona, T. K., De Glanville, W., Lankester, F., Davis, A., Carter, R., de Jong, R., Nyasebwa, O., Claxton, J., Cleaveland, S. and Allan, K. (2018) Taenia multiceps coenurosis in Tanzania: a major and under-recognised livestock disease problem in pastoral communities. [Data Collection]

Ahmed, H., Yoder, J., Davis, A., De Glanville, W., Kibona, T. J. and Cleaveland, S. (2018) Risk management and response to livestock disease losses in agropastoral households of northern Tanzania. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Thu Apr 18 23:39:52 2024 BST.

photo of Alicia Davis