Aarti Bhat

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Topics Health Communication
Housing & Homelessness
Mental Health
Philadelphia Communities

I identify as a population health researcher, with interests in the contribution of housing insecurity and other economic/recessionary events on adult health outcomes; and am particularly interested in the mechanisms by which these economic stressors can get under the skin to affect physiological and epigenetic indicators of health among midlife and older adults. I am also interested in disparities in exposures to economic stressors based on sociodemographic characteristics, as well as disparities in the effects that these exposures have on health among aging adults. I am interested in partnerships related to community-engaged research among housing insecure populations in Philadelphia.

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Selected Publications

  1. Witzel, D. D., Bhat, A. C., Graham-Engeland, J. E., & Almeida, D. M. (2025). Age and Inflammation: Insights on “Age three Ways” from midlife in the united states study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.03.018
  2. Roberts, M. K., Bhat, A. C., Fenelon, A. (2025). The Long-Term Effects of Housing Insecurity in Young Adulthood on Subsequent Material Hardship, Physiological and Mental Health. Social Science & Medicine, 117761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117761
  3. Bhat, A. C., Fenelon, A., & Almeida, D. M. (2025). Housing Insecurity Pathways to Physiological and Epigenetic Manifestations of Health among Aging Adults: A Conceptual Model. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1485371. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1485371
  4. Bhat, A. C., Diaz, J. A., Lee, S. A., Almeida, D. M., & Lee, S. (2024). Associations between Recession Hardships and Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures in the Midlife in the United States Study: Race and Gender Differences. Frontiers in Sleep, 3, 1403818. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2024.1403818
  5. 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
  6. 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-Population Health, 101128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101128

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