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Signe Svallfors
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology
BioDr. Signe Svallfors is a Wallenberg postdoctoral scholar with the Department of Sociology and a Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate with the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) at Stanford University.
Signe’s research concerns the impact of armed conflict and other crises on demographic and health dynamics, particularly in Latin America. Signe has studied topics such as reproductive autonomy, access to healthcare, pregnancy outcomes, family planning, gender norms, sexual and gender minority rights, and gender-based violence, drawing on a combination of nationally representative surveys, spatiotemporal data on violence, and original expert interviews.
Prior to joining Stanford, Signe was a postdoctoral scholar with the Global and Sexual Health research group at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and a guest researcher at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Signe holds a PhD in Sociological Demography from the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University in Sweden. -
Patrick David Swanson
Graduate, Communication
BioPatrick Swanson is an Austrian-American digital journalist with ten years of experience at the intersection of news and tech. He is currently a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, researching AI's impact on the information ecosystem, particularly focusing on the media, journalism and elections. He is collaborating with computer scientists to create AI tools for reporters and editors, working on AI policy and ethics, as well as exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on the media business.
Previously, Patrick founded and led the social media team at Austria's largest newsroom. In this role, he oversaw news coverage for an audience of 2.4 million followers on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, and pioneered strategies against misinformation and hate speech. He covered a wide range of issues from the European refugee crisis to wars, global elections, and the pandemic. As a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna from 2015 to 2022, Patrick taught courses on fact-checking to combat viral misinformation. In 2019, he won Austria's prestigious Walther Rode Prize for his coverage of the 'Ibiza scandal'.