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Jenna Davis

Jenna Davis

Director of the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
School: 
Engineering
Research Areas: 
Health behavior
Human health & medicine
Institutional analysis
Science & engineering
Sanitation & wastewater

Jennifer (“Jenna”) Davis is the director of the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, both of Stanford University. Professor Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and waste management systems and their users, particularly in developing countries. She has conducted field research in more than 20 countries, including most recently Zambia, Bangladesh, and Uganda.