Researchers
Jenna Davis (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University
Eran Bendavid - Stanford University
Rosamond L. Naylor - Stanford University
Glwadys A. Gbetibouo - Stanford University
Katrina ole-MoiYoi - Stanford University
Amy Pickering - Postdoctoral scholar, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University

Water resources management, smallholder food production, poverty, and infectious disease are inextricably connected in the world's poorest regions. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) limited access to water for both productive and domestic uses increases vulnerability to infectious diseases, the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in SSA. Within these complex linkages, identifying intervention points and constructive policy responses requires an understanding of how and the extent to which freshwater supplies and nutrition jointly influences health outcomes. The proposed project, which involves both place-based empirical research and analysis of secondary data, will explore these water-nutrition-health interconnections. It will identify the extent which, and potential causal mechanisms by which, access to domestic and productive water supplies and associated nutritional benefits affect the progression of both HIV and TB among adults living in rural African households.

Additional information on other of Davis' water and development projects.

Contact
Jenna Davis

Funding provided by
• Environmental Venture Projects: Woods Institute for the Environment
• Global Underdevelopment Action Fund - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies