Dr. Anissa Davis grew up in Long Beach, California. She obtained a BA in History at UCLA, then attended Stanford School of Medicine, graduating in 1998 with her MD. She returned to Long Beach to complete a residency in Family Medicine, from 1998-2001. She then completed a Master’s in Public Health at UCLA in 2002 and worked for the LBDHHS as a public health physician specializing in biological bioterrorism agents from 2002-2005.  

In 2005, she left the city to begin a career in Los Alamitos as a family physician, providing primary medical care to adults and children, which she did for eleven years. She returned to LBDHHS in September 2016 as the City Health Officer.