PhD Student Profile

Victoria H. Davis, MS

Victoria H. Davis, MS

  • Doctoral Student

Education

  • Master of Science in Health Services Research (Health Outcomes and Evaluations) at the University of Toronto (2022)
    • Collaborative Specialization in Public Health Policy
  • Bachelor of Science (Hons), Double Major in Health Studies and Psychology, University of Toronto (2018)

Research Interests & Projects

  • Healthcare and community organization partnerships to address unmet social needs
  • Housing systems and the built environment
  • Chronic disease prevention and management
  • Structural drivers of social and economic inequities
  • Community-engaged approaches
  • Systems-oriented research

Selected Publications

  • Davis, V.H., Qiang, J. R., MacCarthy, I. A., Howse, D., Seshie, A. Z., Kosowan, L., … Pinto, A. D. (2025). Perspectives on Using Artificial Intelligence to Derive Social Determinants of Health Data from Medical Records in Canada: Large Multijurisdictional Qualitative Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27(1), e52244. https://doi.org/10.2196/52244

  • Davis, V. H., Zhang, G., & Patel, M. R. (2025). Chronic Disease and Future Perceptions of Financial Control: Results From the Midlife in the United States Cohort Study. Medical Care. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000002126 

  • Davis V.H., Pinto A.D., Patel M.R. (2025). Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Inform Care Coordination by Identifying and Intervening in Patients’ Unmet Social Needs: A Scoping Review. Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16874

  • Davis, V. H., Dainty, K.N., Dhalla, I.A., Sheehan, K.A., Wong, B.M., & Pinto, A.D. (2023). “Addressing the bigger picture”: A qualitative study of internal medicine patients’ perspectives on social needs data collection and use. PLOS ONE, 18(6), e0285795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285795 

  • Patel, M.R., Marshall, J., Zhang, G., Fang, K., Davis, V.H. & Brown, A. Financial concerns of adults with cancer using patient navigation services offered through employer-sponsored benefits. Supportive Care in Cancer, 34(2), 74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-025-10268-4

  • Davis, V. H., Rodger, L., & Pinto, A. D. (2023). Collection and use of social determinants of health data in inpatient general internal medicine wards: A scoping review. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38(2), 480–489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07937-z 

  • Davis, V.H., Nixon, S.A., Murphy, K., Cameron, C., Bond, V.A., Hanass-Hancock, J., Kimura, L., Maimbolwa, M.C., Menon, J.A., Nekolaichuk, E., & Solomon, P. (2022). How the term ‘self-management’ is used in HIV research in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. AIDS and Behavior, 26(10), 3386–3399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03668-8

Additional Information

Victoria H. Davis, MS, is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research examines how interactions across policy, healthcare, and social service systems shape health, with a focus on chronic conditions. She studies how healthcare and community-based organizations address housing and related social needs, and the policies that influence these efforts. Victoria is especially interested in the structural drivers of housing inequities, their implications for chronic conditions, and community-engaged approaches to research.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victoria-Davis-26