Research by Dr. Signe Svallfors

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.

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Peer-reviewed publications

“Armed conflict and unwanted births in Colombia.”

Svallfors, S. (2025) Journal of Health and Social Behavior, forthcoming

“The consequences of community violence for contraceptive use and provision in Mexico.”

Svallfors, S., M. Caudillo and O. Torrisi (2025) Demography, forthcoming

“Armed conflict and birth weight in Colombia: Micro-level evidence on organized violence and anti-coca fumigation.”

Svallfors, S., S. Billingsley, G. Østby, and S. Aradhya (2025) Social Science & Medicine, forthcoming

“Gender equality and armed conflict: A critique of total fertility rate as an indicator.”

Svallfors, S. (2025) Politics & Gender

“Attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health and rights and their associations with reproductive agency: a population-based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.”

Båge, K., A. Kågesten, O. Uthman, M. Salazar, B. Puranen, S. Svallfors, AM. Ekström, and H. Litorp. (2025) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

“Obstetric violence in the context of community violence: The case of Mexico”

Torrisi, O., S. Svallfors, and M. Gargiulo (2024) Social Science & Medicine

“Giving birth while facing death: Cesarean sections and community violence in Latin America.”

Svallfors, S. (2024) Population Research and Policy Review

“Milestone moments: Community violence and women’s life-course transitions in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala”

Svallfors, S. (2024) Population & Development Review

“Reproductive justice in the Colombian armed conflict.”

Svallfors, S. (2024) Disasters

“Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women’s and girls’ reproductive autonomy in Nigeria”

Svallfors, S., K. Båge, A.M. Ekström, K. Elimian, E. Gayawan, H. Litorp and A. Kågesten (2024) Social Science & Medicine

“Climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights research in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review”

Arunda, M.O., R. Sorcher, A.P.F. Canabarro, S. Svallfors, M. Endler, K. Gemzell-Danielsson, A. Kågesten, M. Ali, LG. Bahamondes, M. Barreix, D. Chou, L. Gonsalves, H. Bart Johnston, J. Kiarie, CR. Kim, M. Narasimhan, C. Pallitto, MG. Shah, L. Say, A. Thorson, AM. Ekström, EC. Larsson, V. Brizuela (2024) BMJ Public Health

“Support for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new index based on World Values Survey data”

Svallfors, S. *, K. Båge *, AM. Ekström, Y. Dessie, Y. Dibaba Wado, M. Fagbemi, EC. Larsson, 2024 H. Litorp, B. Puranen, J. Sundewall, O. Uthman, and A. Kågesten (2024) Reproductive Health (* joint first coauthorship)

“Contraceptive choice as risk reduction? The relevance of local violence for women’s uptake of sterilization in Colombia.”

Svallfors, S. (2022) Population Studies

“Conflict and contraception in Colombia.”

Svallfors, S. and S. Billingsley (2019) Studies in Family Planning

Research reports & other publications

Book review: “A tyranny against itself: Intimate partner violence on the margins of Bogotá By John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 258 pp.”

Svallfors, S. (2024) American Ethnologist

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Dr. Signe Svallfors

PhD in Sociological Demography

Dr. Signe Svallfors

PhD in Sociological Demography

Dr. Signe Svallfors

PhD in Sociological Demography