Bio

Aura Ankita Mishra is a developmental health researcher who focuses on biopsychosocial contexts and mechanisms linking life-course social adversities to health and behavioral problems with a special focus on populations at-risk for health disparities. In her research, she integrates individual-level developmental models and population methods. She hopes to extend her current line of research on social environments to incorporate physical environmental factors to better understand how multi-level and multi-contextual factors influence health and contribute to health disparities.

Education

Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, (2020)

Biosocial Postdoctoral Trainee, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (2023)

Publications

• Intersectionality, social stress, and biological embedding: Toward intersectional psychoneuroendocrinology , Psychoneuroendocrinology (2025)
• Sexual Minority Identity and Physical Illnesses: Role of Life-Course Victimization and Gender Differences , American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2025)
• Understanding Narratives of Trauma on Social Media , PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE, WEBSCI 2025 (2025)
• Child Care Providers’ Quality Improvement within QRIS , Child & Youth Care Forum (2024)
• Familial Loss of a Loved One and Biological Aging , JAMA Network Open (2024)
• Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors and Epigenetic Aging in US Young Adults , JAMA Network Open (2024)
• Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding , Psychoneuroendocrinology (2024)
• The Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Correlates of Epigenetic Aging in a Nationally Representative U.S. Study of Younger Adults , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)
• An Observational Study of Children’s Problem Solving during Play with Friends , Journal of Cognition and Development (2022)
• Multi-type childhood maltreatment exposure and substance use development from adolescence to early adulthood: A GxE study , Child Abuse & Neglect (2022)