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  1. Racism, sociopolitical context, and emotional well-being in immigrant Latina mothers and their preschool-aged children: A mixed methods study.

    Article • Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  2. Prenatal inflammation and trauma symptoms in Latina mothers: The role of discrimination and growing up in an ethnic minoritized context

    Article • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, February 2025, Elsevier

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  3. Social Support Is Protective Against the Effects of Discrimination on Parental Mental Health Outcomes

    Article • Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  4. Childhood Racism and Cardiometabolic Risk in Latina Mothers Across the First Postpartum Year

    Article • Psychosomatic Medicine, March 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  5. The Effects of Maternal Perinatal Depression on Child IQ: A Systematic Review

    Article • Maternal and Child Health Journal, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  6. Oxytocin modulates sensitivity to acculturation and discrimination stress in pregnancy

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, July 2022, Elsevier

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  7. Acculturative stress, telomere length, and postpartum depression in Latinx mothers

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, March 2022, Elsevier

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  8. Placental genomics mediates genetic associations with complex health traits and disease

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  9. Which roads lead to depression in Latinas? A network analysis of prenatal depressive symptoms, discrimination, acculturative stress, and low birth weight

    Article • Research in Nursing & Health, January 2022, Wiley

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  10. Genetic control of fetal placental genomics contributes to development of health and disease

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  11. Biopsychosocial correlates of psychological distress in Latina mothers

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, March 2021, Elsevier

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris

  12. Maternal depression in Latinas and child socioemotional development: A systematic review

    Article • PLOS One, March 2020, PLOS

    Rebeca Alvarado Harris