Josefina Flores Morales (she/her/ella) is a Propel Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She is a sociologist and social demographer with a research focus on health and socioeconomic inequities across the life course. She is interested in diverging outcomes across race/ethnicity and documentation status, primarily using quantitative methods in her research.

Morales is a 2024-25 University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (and Dr. Feizal Waffarn Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship) recipient. She earned a B.A. in psychology with a public health minor from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She pursued her doctoral education in sociology at UCLA as well. Her doctoral studies were supported by the Health Policy Research Scholars program, a program by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In her free time, she enjoys dancing bachata and salsa. She also enjoys playing and watching soccer.