After completing her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University, Aarti is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minnesota Population Center. Aarti identifies as a population health researcher, with interests in the contribution of housing insecurity and other economic/recessionary events on life course health outcomes; and is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which these economic stressors can get under the skin to affect physiological and epigenetic indicators of health. Aarti is 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 across the life course. Her interdisciplinary training has allowed her to cultivate expertise at the intersection of social environments and population health, translational science, and psychosocial determinants and biological pathways to healthy aging.