My research focuses on the intersection of violence, social inequality, and health dynamics, with an emphasis on reproductive rights and gender-based violence in Latin America.
I currently serve as a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. Before this, I was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Sociology and Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, and the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institute. I earned my doctorate in sociological demography from the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University in December 2021.
In 2025, I was awarded a €1.6M Starting Grant from the European Research Council to investigate Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime (SeRO) in Mexico.
Svallfors, S. (2025) Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Svallfors, S. (2025) Politics & Gender
Torrisi, O., S. Svallfors, and M. Gargiulo (2024) Social Science & Medicine
Svallfors, S. (2024) Disasters
Svallfors, S., K. Båge, A.M. Ekström, K. Elimian, E. Gayawan, H. Litorp and A. Kågesten (2024) Social Science & Medicine
Svallfors, S. and S. Billingsley (2019) Studies in Family Planning
