Dr. Sally M. Davis is a tenured professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico (UNM) where she is the Chief of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Director of the Prevention Research Center (PRC). Dr. Davis has more than 30 years experience conducting prevention research in partnership with American Indian and other 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 has published widely in this area and is often asked to provide advice and consultation to groups such as the World Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal groups. As a senior member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine faculty, Dr. Davis leads the Pediatric Department's Research Committee and Office of Creative Endeavors, serves on the Chair's Executive Committee, the UNM Health Sciences Center Research Building Steering Committee, and is a past member of the Dean's Science Advisory Committee.

Recently she was asked to be the New Mexico liaison for Research! America, a Washington, DC based research advocacy group, and to serve on the review panel for the National Registry of Effective Programs. The National Registry is a repository of effective programs for preventing and treating various problems of interest to the National Institutes of Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.