Sally M. Davis

Director, UNM Prevention Research Center
pediatrics
prevention research center,university of new mexico
Mexico

Biography

  Dr. Sally M. Davis is a tenured professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico (UNM) where she is Chief of the Division of Prevention and Population Sciences and the Director of the Prevention Research Center (PRC). Dr. Davis has more than 35 years experience conducting prevention research in partnership with under-represented populations, especially in rural communities. She has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of numerous studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the prevention of obesity, tobacco use, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Much of her work has been school-based with a focus on primary prevention and health promotion. She recently received the first annual University of New Mexico Health Science Center's Excellence in Research Award for Population Science

Research Intrest

 Disease Control and Prevention for the prevention of obesity, tobacco use, cardiovascular disease, and cancer