Dr Sara Davies is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Dr Davies is Chief Investigator of an ARC discovery grant titled Containing H5N1: the role of the World Health Organization and East Asian states. She is author of Legitimising Rejection: International Refugee Law in Southeast Asia (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007) and author of The Global Politics of Health (Polity Press, 2010).