Publications
* Published work by lab members not involving Bansal is not listed here. Please see the individual websites of lab members to find additional work.Preprints
The global landscape of susceptibility to orthopoxviruses-- The legacy of smallpox vaccination
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.29.22278217, 2022
Pathogen transmission modes determine contact network structure, altering other pathogen
bioRxiv,
DOI: , 2022
Characterizing spatiotemporal trends in self-reported mask-wearing behavior in the United States
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.19.22277821, 2022
Disentangling the rhythms of human activity in the built environment for airborne transmission risk
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.07.22273578, 2022
Ignoring spatial heterogeneity in drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the US will impede sustained elimination
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.09.21261807, 2021
Characterizing superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 -- from mechanism to measurement
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.08.20246082, 2020
Mapping the human helminthiases-- a systematic review of geospatial tools in medical parasitology
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.30.20223529, 2021
Characterization of influenza vaccination recommendation across spatial scales in the United States
medRxiv,
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.19.21250118, 2021
2022
Addressing the socioeconomic divide in computational modeling for infectious diseases
Nature Communications,
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30688-8, 2022
Climate change will drive novel cross-species viral transmission
Nature,
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04788-w5, 2022
Spatial clustering in vaccination hesitancy-- the role of social influence and social selection
PLoS Computational Biology,
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.11.22269032, 2022
Fine-scale spatial patterns of wildlife disease are common and understudied
Functional Ecology,
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13942, 2022
Dissecting recurrent waves of pertussis across the boroughs of London
PLoS Computational Biology,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009898, 2022
Spatial aggregation choice in the era of digital and administrative surveillance data
PLoS Digital Health,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000039, 2022
Characterizing the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the COVID-19 vaccination landscape
American Journal of Epidemiology,
Characterizing an epidemiological geography of the United States-- influenza as a case study
American Journal of Epidemiology,
2021
Revealing mechanisms of infectious disease spread through empirical contact networks
PLoS Computational Biology,
17 (12), 2021
From flames to inflammation-- how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease
Fire Ecology,
17 (23), 2021
Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations
eLife,
DOI: 10.1101/170266, 2020
The missing season-- The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza
Vaccine,
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.049, 2021
Highlighting socio-economic constraints on mobility reductions during COVID-19 restrictions in France can inform effective and equitable pandemic response
Journal of Travel Medicine,
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taab045, 2021
Health inequities in influenza transmission and surveillance
PLoS Computational Biology,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008642, 2021
Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology
Journal of Animal Ecology,
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13356, 2020
Negative density-dependent parasitism in a group-living carnivore
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B,
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2655, 2020
2020
Impacts of human disturbance in marine mammals-- Do behavioral changes translate to disease consequences?
Ethology and Biology of Marine Mammals,
Socio-economic disparities in social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Journal of Medical Internet Research,
DOI: 10.2196/24591, 2020
Misconceptions about weather and seasonality must not misguide COVID-19 response
Nature Communications,
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18150-z, 2020
Getting personal-- how childhood vaccination policies shape the landscape of vaccine exemptions
Open Forum Infectious Diseases,
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa088, 2020
The landscape of childhood vaccine exemptions in the United States
Scientific Data,
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.13125419, 2020
Sex, synchrony, and skin contact-- integrating multiple behaviors to assess pathogen transmission risk
Behavioral Ecology,
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa002, 2020
2019
Sociality and tattoo skin disease among bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia
Behavioral Ecology,
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz207, 2019
Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0910-6, 2019
Ant colonies maintain social homeostasis in the face of decreased density
eLife,
8:e38473, 2019
A multi-species repository of social networks
Scientific Data,
6:44, 2019
2018
Feeding the disparities-- the geography and trends of breastfeeding in the United States
bioRxiv (Preprint only),
2018
Spatiotemporal Patterns and Diffusion of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in British India
American Journal of Epidemiology,
187:12, 2018
The reachability of contagion in temporal contact networks: how disease latency can exploit the rhythm of human behavior
BMC Infectious Diseases,
18:219, 2018
Deploying digital health data to optimize influenza surveillance at national and local scales
PLoS Computational Biology,
2018
Epidemiological investigation of tattoo-like skin lesions among bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia
Science of the Total Environment,
2018
Disease implications of animal social network structure: A synthesis across social systems
Journal of Animal Ecology,
2018
2017
Unraveling the disease consequence and mechanisms of modular structure in animal social networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
114(16), 2017
Data-driven models of foot-and-mouth disease dynamics: a review
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases,
64, 2017
Contact, travel and transmission: The impact of winter holidays on influenza dynamics in the United States
Journal of Infectious Diseases,
215(5), pg 732-739, 2017
2016
Big data for infectious disease surveillance and modeling
Journal of Infectious Diseases,
214(S4), S375-S379, 2016
Mind the scales: Harnessing spatial big data for infectious disease surveillance and inference
Journal of Infectious Diseases,
214(S4), pg S409-S413, 2016
Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A Review
Physics of Life Reviews,
18, pg 66-97, 2016
Inferring social structure and its drivers from refuge use in the desert tortoise, a relatively social species
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,
70(8), pg 1277-1289, 2016
Host contact and shedding patterns clarify variation in pathogen exposure and transmission in threatened tortoise Gopherus agassizii: Implications for disease modelling and management
Journal of Animal Ecology,
85(3), pg 829-842, 2016
Using heterogeneity in the population structure of U.S. swine farms to compare transmission models for porcine epidemic diarrhoea
Scientific Reports,
6:22248, 2016
Increasing Herd immunity with influenza revaccination
Epidemiology and Infection,
144(6), pg 1267-77, 2016
2015
Livestock market data for modeling disease spread among US cattle
bioRxiv (Preprint only),
2015
Detecting signals of seasonal influenza severity through age dynamics
BMC Infectious Diseases,
15 (587), 2015
Social, spatial, and temporal organization in a complex insect society
Scientific Reports,
5:13393, 2015
Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health
Science,
347(6227), 2015
Nine challenges in incorporating the dynamics of behaviour in infectious diseases models
Epidemics,
10, 21-25, 2015
Eight challenges for network epidemic models
Epidemics,
10, 58-62, 2015
Six challenges in measuring contact networks for use in modeling
Epidemics,
10, 72-77, 2015
Assessing the use of antiviral treamement to control influenza
Epidemiology and Infection,
143(8), pg 1621-1631, 2015
2014
Disease dynamics during wildlife translocations: disruptions to the host population and potential consequences for transmission in desert tortoise contact networks
Animal Conservation,
17, pg 27-39, 2014
Exploring community structure in biological networks with random graphs
BMC Bioinformatics,
15(220), 2014
2013
Inferring contact network heterogeneity from common epidemic data
Journal of the Royal Society Interface,
10(78), 2013
Mixed Methods Pilot Study of Sharing Behaviors among Waterpipe Smokers of Rural Lao PDR: Implications for Infectious Disease Transmission
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
10(6), pg 2120-2132, 2013
2012 and earlier
The impact of past epidemics on future disease dynamics
Journal of Theoretical Biology,
309, pg 176-184, 2012
Statistical Inference to advance network models in epidemiology
Epidemics,
3(1), pg 38-45, 2011
Fast Community Detection for Dynamic Complex Networks
Complex Networks in Communications in Computer and Information Science,
116, 2011
The dynamic nature of contact networks in epidemiology
Journal of Biological Dynamics,
4(5), pg 478-489, 2010
The shifting demographic landscape of influenza
PLoS One,
5(2), 2010
Exploring biological network structure with clustered random networks
BMC Bioinformatics,
10(405), 2009
When individual behavior matters: homogeneous and network models in epidemiology
Journal of the Royal Society Interface,
4(16), 2007
Network fraility and the geometry of herd immunity
Proc R Soc Lond B Bio Sci,
273(1602), 2006
A comparative analysis of influenza vaccination programs
PLoS Medicine,
3(10), 2006