Dr Alun Davies

Dr Alun Davies is a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Alun Davies is Senior Programmes Manager at The Global Health Network, where he leads partnerships and public, community, and patient engagement. He heads Mesh, The Global Health Network’s platform dedicated to strengthening community engagement in health research.

Through a team of coordinators embedded within health research institutions across Africa, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East and Latin America and the Caribbean, Mesh strengthens engagement practice by facilitating the sharing of skills, knowledge, and resources among practitioners and researchers.

Under Alun’s leadership, Mesh supports the World Health Organization through participation in the Global Clinical Trials Forum (GCTF) and the Community Engagement and Involvement working groups. Mesh recently conducted a rapid research project to inform WHO interim guidance on social and behavioural research for mpox.

Alun brings over 20 years of community engagement experience, primarily based in Kenya. His work has spanned HIV prevention research with sex workers, engagement with schoolchildren and young people, and involvement in multi-country clinical trials. A significant personal achievement was establishing a large-scale school engagement programme in Kenya, creating a platform to incorporate the perspectives of children and young people into health research affecting them.

Alun is a mixed-methods researcher and holds a PhD focused on evaluating community engagement. His doctoral work combined participatory video with qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine the impacts and influence of community engagement.