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Stanford Faculty

Jennifer Davis

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environmen

Jennifer (“Jenna”) Davis, MPH, PhD, is an Associate 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. Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users in developing countries. With a background in public health, infrastructure planning, and environmental science & engineering, Davis explores questions regarding interventions that trigger household investment in water, sanitation, and hygiene; the features of water and sanitation services that users value and why; and the health and economic impacts of water supply and sanitation improvements. She has conducted field research in more than a dozen countries, including most recently Kenya, Mozambique, and Bangladesh. Over the past five years, approximately 25 graduate students and post-docs have obtained training in the field with Davis's projects. Davis received a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MSPH in Public Health and PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.