School of Public Health

Education

• Imperial College London, Ph.D., 2012

• Imperial College London, B.Sc., 2007

Background

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Courses Currently/Recently Taught

• R Bootcamp
• SPH E 250

Research

A population ecologist by training, her research focuses on developing mathematical models to understand the eco-evolutionary, demographic and environmental drivers of seasonal epidemics and (re) emerging diseases.

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Scientific Reports

• Bento, A.I., Donnelly, C.A. (2015) Impact of immunisation activities on within-herd bovine tuberculosis outbreaks. Defra Final Report SE3130: 35 Pages.
• Bento, A.I., Donnelly, C.A. (2013) Impact of immunisation activities on within-herd bovine tuberculosis outbreaks. Defra Interim Report SE3130: 20 Pages.

Selected Publications

Articles

Bento, A.I., Bansal, S., Omer, S.B. & Rohani, P. (nearing submission) Heterogeneous vaccination and herd immunity erosion across scales.

Bento, A.I., Pemberton, J.M., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Kruuk, L.E.B. & Crawley, M.J. (nearing submission) Vegetation community dynamics in a wild red deer population.

Treddenick, A., Bento, A.I., Hall, S.D., Rohani, P. & Drake, J. (nearing submission) Forecasting the trajectory of infectious diseases using generic time series models: an inter-model comparison across five diseases. using generic time series models: an inter-model comparison across five diseases.

Bento, A.I., King, A.A., Taujale, R., Bosch, T. & Rohani, P. (in review) Bordetella pertussis epidemiology, transmission and evolution in the vaccine era.

Garnier R., Bento A.I., Rohani P., Omer, S.B. & Bansal, S. (in review) Feeding the disparities: the geography and trends of breastfeeding in the United States.

Linz B., Bento, A.I., Weigand M., Tondela M.L., Soumana I.H. & Harvil E.T (in review) Competitive advantage of B. holmesii in highly pertussis-vaccinated populations.

Bento, A.I., Pemberton J.M., Clutton-Brock T.H., Coulson T.M. & Crawley M.J. (in review) The grass is greener on the other side: Density feedbacks mediate effects of environmental change on Soay sheep survival.

Bento, A.I., Donnelly, C.A. (2019) Epidemiological impact of control and immunisation activities on within-herd bovine tuberculosis outbreaks. Forthcoming in Scientific Reports

Bento, A.I., Riolo, M.A., Choi, Y.H., King, A.A. & Rohani, P. (2018) Core Pertussis transmission groups in England and Wales: A tale of two eras. Vaccine 36(9):1160-1166. doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.01.046

Bento, A.I., King, A.A. & Rohani, P. (2018) Quantifying relative role of age groups under differing pertussis transmission scenarios. BioRxiv doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/247007

Bento, A.I., King, A.A. & Rohani, P. (2017) Maternal pertussis immunisation: clinical gains and epidemiological legacy. Eurosurveillance 22(15):30510. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.15.30510

Garnier, R., Bento, A.I., Pemberton, J.M. & Graham, A.L. (2017) Physiological proteins in resource-limited herbivores experiencing a population die-off. The Science of Nature 104(7):68-72. doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1490-4

Bento, A.I., Rohani, P. (2016) Forecasting epidemiological consequences of maternal immunization. Clinical Infectious Diseases 63(Suppl 4):S205-S212. doi:10.1093/cid/ciw557

Finnie, T.J.R., Bento, A.I., South, A., Sherrard-Smith, E. & Jombart, T. (2016) EpiJSON: A unified data-format for epidemiology. Epidemics 15:20-26. doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2015.12.002

Van Kerkhove, M.D.*, Bento, A.I.*, Mills, H.L., Ferguson, N.M. & Donnelly, C.A. (2015) A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. Scientific Data 2:150019. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.19 (* joint first authors)

Donnelly, C.A.*, Bento, A.I.*, Goodchild, A.V. & Downs, S.H. (2015) Exploration of the power of routine surveillance data to assess the impacts of industry-led badger culling on bovine tuberculosis incidence in cattle herds. Veterinary Record 177(16):417-420. doi:10.1136/vr.103201 (* joint first authors)

Stopher K.V., Bento, A.I., Clutton-Brock T.H., Pemberton J.M. & Kruuk L.E.B. (2014) Multiple pathways mediate the effects of climate change on maternal reproductive traits in a red deer population. Ecology 95:3124-3138. doi:10.1890/13-0967.1

Bento, A.I., Wilson A.J. (2011) Counting Sheep in a changing world. Biodiversity Science 4:1 https://www.biodiversityscience.com/2011/11/01/counting-sheep-changing-world/