The COVID Pandemic and Changing Inequalities in Infant Health Florencia Torche, Stanford University
Florencia Torche is Dunlevie Family Professor in the School
of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her research
and writing focus on social inequality and social mobility,
educational disparities, and marriage and family dynamics. Her
recent scholarship has extensively studied the influence of
early-life exposures and circumstances –starting before birth– on
individual health, development, and wellbeing using natural
experiments and causal inference approaches.
Professor Torche was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2020, and to the Sociological Research
Association in 2013. She currently serves as
Deputy Editor of the American Sociological Review, member of
the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Addressing the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
on Children and Families, and member of the Board of Directors of
the Population Association of America.
