Education
| 1998 | Ph.D., Environmental Management and Policy |
| 1995 | Master of Science in Public Health |
| 1988 | Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (Plan II Honors Program) |
Selected public and professional service
| 2005-pres. | Member, Global Water Partnership Technical Committee. |
| 2003-2005 | Member, United Nations Millennium Development Task Force for Water and Sanitation |
| 2004-pres. | Water and environment advisor, Acumen Fund. |
| 2004-pres. | Member, Winrock Water editorial board. |
| 2004-pres. | Member, Global Village Engineers Board of Directors. |
Selected publications
| 2005 | Davis, J. Private-sector participation in the water and sanitation sector. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 30: 1-39. |
| 2004 | Davis, J., and D. Whittington. “Challenges for water sector reform in transition economies.” Water Policy 6(4): 1-15. |
| 2003 | Davis, J. Corruption in public services: Experience from South Asia’s water and sanitation sector. World Development 32(1): 53-71. |
| 2003 | Davis, J. Scaling up slum upgrading efforts: Where are the bottlenecks? International Development Planning Review 26(3): 301-319. |
| 2002 | Davis, J. Assessing community preferences for development initiatives: Are willingness-to-pay studies robust to mode effects? World Development 32(4): 655-672. |
| 2002 | Davis, J., S. Tankha, A. Ghosh, P. Martin, T. Samad, B. Zia, and G. Prunier. In search of good governance: Experiments from South Asia’s water and sanitation sector. New Delhi: Water and Sanitation Program. |
| 2001 | Davis, J., and P. Iyer. Scaling up sustainable rural water supply services: A discussion paper. Washington, DC: Water and Sanitation Program. |
| 2001 | Davis, J., A. Kang, J. Vincent, and D. Whittington. How Important is Improved Water Infrastructure to Microenterprises? Evidence from Uganda. World Development 29 (10): 1753-1767. |
| 1999 | Whittington, D., J. Davis, H. Miarsono, and R. Pollard. Designing a “neighborhood deal” for urban sewers: A case study of Semarang, Indonesia. Journal of Planning Education and Research 19 (3): 297-308. |
| 1999 | Whittington, D., J. Davis, and E. McClelland. Implementing a demand-driven approach to community water supply planning: A case study of Lugazi, Uganda. Water International 23(3): 134. Reprinted in Saleth, R.M., ed., Resources and Economic Development (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing). |
| 1998 | Davis, J., and D. Whittington. “Participatory” research techniques for development projects: A comparison of the contingent valuation and community dialogue methods. Economic Development and Cultural Change 47(1): 73. |
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"Clean water, sanitation goals for world's poor", Earth & Sky, D. Byrd & J. Block |
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"Global effort to provide poorest with basic sanitation slow going", Maria Jose Vinas |
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"Earth, Woods and water", L.A. Cicero |
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"646 Very Personal Questions", Cover story of the Stanford Alumni Association magazine, Stanford, Nov./ Dec. 2008. This is about Jenna Davis' work. On page 35, Bob Siegel [a former Stanford Tree !] is featured in a short article: |
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"Stanford researchers seek low-cost solutions to Africa's sanitation crisis" Article in print and online editions of the Stanford Report, April 22, 2009. |