Aarti Bhat

Graduate student

Preferred Pronouns

she/her/hers

Summary Statement

Aarti focuses on recessionary impacts, particularly housing insecurity, among midlife and older adults; how stress around such events contributes to biological and epigenetic changes; and the biopsychosocial pathways by which recession stress is connected to those changes.

Department

Graduate Student

Education

Graduate Certificate in Translational Science, Penn State (2023)
MS in Human Development and Family Studies and Demography from Penn State (2021)
BS in Human Development and Family Sciences, BA in Plan II Honors from UT Austin (2018)

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acb6009@psu.edu

Affiliations

Advisor: David Almeida

Professional Experience

Awards and honors:

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Psychosocial Determinants and Biological Pathways to Healthy Aging T32 Training Program, funded by NIA (2023-2025)
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Translational Research TL1 Training Program, funded by NCATS (2022-2023)
Interdepartmental Graduate Student Grant (IGSG) in the College of Health and Human Development Recipient (2022-2023)
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Social Environments and Population Health T32 Training Program, funded by NICHD (2020-2022)
Marjorie M. Knoll Distinguished Graduate Fellow in the College of Health and Human Development (2019-2020)

Departmental roles:

Admissions committee student representative, HDFS Graduate Steering Committee (2022-2023)
Co-chair, HDFS Graduate Steering Committee (2021-2022)
Community service co-chair, HDFS Graduate Steering Committee (2020-2021)

Teaching experience through Schreyer Institute:

Completed New Instructor Orientation
Completed Instructional Foundations Series
Completed Graduate Student Online Teaching Certificate
Completed Course in College Teaching

Publications

Bhat, A. C., Almeida, D. M., Fenelon, A., & Santos-Lozada, A. R. (2022). A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between housing insecurity and physical health among midlife and aging adults in the United States. SSM Popul Health, 18, 101128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101128
Apsley, A. T., Lee, S. A., Bhat, A. C., Rush, J., Almeida, D. M., Cole, S. W., & Shalev, I. (2024). Affective reactivity to daily stressors and immune cell gene expression in the MIDUS study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 115, 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.09.025