It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

Sara L. M. Davis is based at the Graduate Institute and the Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, in Geneva. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and UCLA. She was a researcher at Human Rights Watch and founding executive director of Asia Catalyst. She was the first senior human rights advisor at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and later an independent consultant. Her first book was Song and Silence: Ethnic revival on China's Southwest Borders (2005). In 2017, her research won the International Geneva Award.

1. Contested indicators; 2. The uncounted: Key populations; 3. "Something more than data"; 4. Cost-effectiveness and human rights; 5. Modeling the end of AIDS; 6. Sustainability, transition and crisis; 7. Listening to women; 8. "So many hurdles just to leave the house"; 9. The Panopticon and the Potemkin; 10. Data from the ground up.