Dr. Mishra is a developmental health researcher and director of The Multifaceted Identities, Stress, Health, and Resilience across Age-groups (MISHRA) research lab. 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)

• Identity (e.g., sexual orientation and gender identity)

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

• Integrating survey and developmental methods