The Davis research group works on water and waste, health and development. 

Jenna Davis is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and director of Stanford's Program on Water, Health and Development.

Her group, which is affectionately known as the Poop Group, focuses on the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users, largely in developing countries.