Aarti Bhat, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a population health researcher with interests in the impact of housing insecurity and other economic or recessionary events on adult health outcomes.
Bhat is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which these economic stressors affect physiological and epigenetic indicators of health among midlife and older adults. She also examines disparities in exposure to economic stressors based on sociodemographic characteristics, as well as differences in how these exposures influence health among aging adults. Her interdisciplinary training during her doctoral studies allowed her to develop expertise at the intersection of social environments and population health, translational science, and psychosocial determinants and biological pathways to healthy aging.
She completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development and Family Studies and Demography at Pennsylvania State University.