“I started becoming obsessed with how we can incorporate behavior into models to try and understand precisely how fast something can spread, and can we actually develop interventions that are behavioral in their nature … if you don't account for evolution of behavior, you can never understand or predict the outcome.”

On our latest podcast episode, Dr. Anna Bento, assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, talks with show host Michelle Moyal, D.V.M.’ 07, about her career as a quantitative disease ecologist, from chasing crazy sheep to tracking cute monkeys, to answering the million-dollar question: when and where the next pandemic will occur. Discover how one tricky variable — human behavior — can make all the difference in how a disease does, or doesn’t, spread.

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