Jenna Davis

Jenna Davis is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University, where she also serves as Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. She heads the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development. Her research focuses on water, economic development and public health intersections, with field work spanning over 20 countries including Zambia, Bangladesh, and Uganda.

Research domains include:

• Water supply sustainability and infrastructure management
• Household water quality and safety interventions
• School-based WASH programming
• Economic and behavioral aspects of water service delivery
• Sanitation innovation in resource-limited settings

Her recent publications investigate drinking water quality variability in Tanzania, maintenance professionalization impacts in Uganda, water contamination pathways in Zambia, and effective demand for chlorination technologies in Bangladesh. Davis teaches courses including Water, Sanitation and Health; Water & Climate Change; and interdisciplinary courses on poverty-infrastructure-climate change connections. She maintains extensive collaborations with development banks, UN agencies, NGOs, and private-sector companies working in water and sanitation globally.