Aura Ankita Mishra, PhD is a developmental health researcher She earned her PhD from Purdue University and was a Biosocial Postdoctoral trainee at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Her research foci include:

• Interpersonal adversities and stressors across the life-course (e.g., childhood abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence)

• Health and behavioral problems (e.g., mental health, chronic illness, substance use)

• Social-context and resilience (e.g., peer and social support)

• Biological, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms (e.g., genetics, epigenetics, inflammation, stress, sleep, substance use)

• Integrating survey and developmental methods