Esa Davis, MD, MPH

Dr. Davis is a board-certified family physician with more than 20 years of clinical expertise in the acute and chronic management of adults and children. In addition, she is a widely published, NIH-funded clinical researcher, whose efforts focus on obesity-related maternal and child health outcomes and in comparative effectiveness research in maternal health and tobacco use disorder.

Much of her work has focused on understanding the perinatal determinants of obesity, maternal health inequities and long-term cardiovascular health in women. She has contributed to the field specifically by investigating the perinatal, cultural, and behavioral factors associated with the racial and socioeconomic inequities in obesity among women that have persisted for decades.