Uncounted - Politics of Data in Global Health

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

List of contents

1. Contested indicators; 2. The uncounted: Key populations; 3. "Something more than data"; 4. Cost-effectiveness and human rights; 5. Modeling the end of AIDS; 6. Sustainability, transition and crisis; 7. Listening to women; 8. "So many hurdles just to leave the house"; 9. The Panopticon and the Potemkin; 10. Data from the ground up.

About the author

Sara L. M. Davis is based at the Graduate Institute and the Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, in Geneva. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and UCLA. She was a researcher at Human Rights Watch and founding executive director of Asia Catalyst. She was the first senior human rights advisor at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and later an independent consultant. Her first book was Song and Silence: Ethnic revival on China's Southwest Borders (2005). In 2017, her research won the International Geneva Award.

Summary

How do we know that development aid is reaching those who need it most? The answer is increasingly data. This book cracks open high-level debates over indicators and data, showing the political and economic forces that shape what gets measured and how in HIV finance.

Product details

• Authors: Sara L M Davis, Sara L. M. Davis, Sara L.M. Davis, Sara L.m. (Graduate Institute of Internatio Davis, DAVIS SARA L.M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108483360
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48336-0
• No. of pages: 225
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Asia, LAW / General, Africa, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political activism, Developing Countries, Comparative Politics, Social and cultural anthropology, Development Studies, Law & society, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Law and society, sociology of law, Political activism / Political engagement, Global South / Developing countries