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Bethany Kotlar

Research Fellow

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Bethany's Catalyst Profile

Publications

The quandary of high-quality evaluation in complex child welfare systems.

Kotlar B, Tiemeier H. Nat Med 2025

PMID: 40312588
Whose sleep matters? Untangling the relationships between maternal sleep, child sleep, and maternal depressive symptoms in the first two years of life.

Kotlar B, Kotlar A, Sadikova E, Jimenez M, Yousafzai A, Sudo M, Kyeong Y, Setoh P, Ngoh G, Rifkin-Graboi A, Meaney MJ, Chen H, Brockman BFP, Goh DYT, Yap F, Lee YS, Cai S, Tiemeier H. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2025 Mar 11

PMID: 40069472
"The system's not getting my grandchild": A qualitative study of caregiver relationship formation for children born to incarcerated mothers.

Kotlar B, Yousafzai A, Sufrin C, Jimenez M, Tiemeier H. Soc Sci Med 2025

PMID: 40020312
"How Am I Going to Do It?" Understanding the Challenges of Assuming Care of a Child Born During their Mothers' Incarceration.

Kotlar B, Dawson K, Odayar V, Mason E, Tiemeier H. Health Equity 2025

PMID: 40125374
Forgotten Fundamentals: A Review of State Legislation on Nutrition for Incarcerated Pregnant and Postpartum People.

Vitagliano J, Shalev T, Saunders JB, Mason E, Stang J, Shlafer R, Kotlar B. J Correct Health Care 2024

PMID: 38442320

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