Gayle Davis is Senior Lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on the social history of medicine in Britain since 1880, with a particular focus upon reproductive health (abortion, contraception, infertility and stillbirth).

Her recent Wellcome Trust university award on the history of infertility in 20th-century Britain led her, among other things, to co-edit (with Tracey Loughran) The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History (due to be published June 2017).

She is currently lucky to be working with Sally Sheldon (PI), Clare Parker and Jane O'Neill on an AHRC-funded biography of the 1967 Abortion Act, which will come to fruition in 2018. A co-edited book with Christabelle Sethna, provisionally titled 'Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services ', is also due to be published in 2018 with Johns Hopkins University Press.