She earned her Master’s in Public Health from Emory University and her PhD from Harvard University and is now studying public health and medical anthropology. Her book, HIV Exceptionalism, explores the treatment of AIDS as an exceptional disease and the recognition and care that this takes away from other diseases and public health challenges in poor countries. Her current research is on surgical care in poor countries, focusing on the preconceptions about experience, expense and availability. She is also researching the challenges and opportunities of resilience-based public health policies. Benton is an avid blogger and tweeter about many pressing issues, such as biopolitics, race and gender.