Speaker, Virtual Rector's Forum, June 20, 2021 “Return to Worship”, All Saints Church, Pasadena. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jo3Il50_HWOaRqKf1ej4DJYuh7Q_LGLf/view?usp=sharing
YouTube Video, “The Garden View with Nicole Gatto - Vaccine Hesitancy and Returning to Normal”, June 7, 2021 https://youtu.be/CLNx_tzIjpM
Podcast, “The Campfire: Vaccines and the Vaccinated”, May 7, 2021 https://cgupodcast.libsyn.com/vaccines-and-the-vaccinated
Invited talk, Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions Series, “The WHO Response to COVID-19”, April 27, 2021 Westminster Gardens. https://tinyurl.com/nst4hrkz
Lunch & Learn, “Vaccine Acceptance among employees of a County health system”, April 16, 2021 Claremont Graduate University. https://tinyurl.com/944frck4
Guest lecturer, TNDY 408C COVID-19 and Health Systems in the USA and Around the World: “The Epidemiology of COVID-19”, September 3, 2020, Claremont Graduate University https://tinyurl.com/y3kq68qf
Webinar, “The Epidemiology of COVID-19 at 6 months: 10 things we know and 10 we don’t”, June 19, 2020, Claremont Graduate University. https://tinyurl.com/ycwe4uqa
Panelist, with Deputy Director of the Pasadena Public Health Department, Manuel Carmona, and physician, Giancarlo DiMassa. Virtual Rector's Forum, May 17, 2020 “The Intersection of Race and Covid-19, All Saints Church, Pasadena. Link to YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/KDgqHgKOD60
Seminar Speaker, Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, “Vaccine acceptance among employees of a County health system”, November 4, 2021
Co-Author of Academic Paper: Chipidza W, Akbaripourdibazar E, Gwanzura T, Gatto NM. A topic analysis of traditional and social media news coverage of the early COVID-19 pandemic and implications for public health communication. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 3 March 2021 1-23 Click here for article
Co-Author of Academic Paper: Gatto NM, Shellhorn H. Optimal disease treatment in the presence of uncertainty. Mathematical Biosciences 2021; 333: 108539 Click here for article
Co-Author of Academic Paper: Chipidza W, Krewson C, Gatto NM, Akbaripourdibazar E, Gwanzura T. Worlds Apart: Ideological Variation in News Content and Source Credibility During a Pandemic Big Data & Society 9(1), 20539517221076486 Click here for article
Research Collaboration and Academic Paper: Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, Daniel Gluckstein and Lisa Diaz; Debbie Freund. Factors that predict survival among predominantly Latino and low-income patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at PVHMC. Timing of convalescent plasma therapy and outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at PVHMC.
Lead Author of Academic Paper: Gatto NM, Lee J, Massai D, Sasaninia B, Zamarripa S, Khurana D, Michaels K, Freund D, Nightingale J, Firek A. Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal among employees of a safety net California county health system with an early and aggressive vaccination program: Results from a cross-sectional survey Vaccines, 2021, 9, 1152 Click here for article
Senior Author of Academic Paper: Garcia L, Firek A, Freund D, Massai D, Khurana D, Lee JE, Zamarripa S, Sasaninia B, Michaels K, Nightingale J, Gatto NM. Decisions to Choose COVID-19 Vaccination by Health Care Workers in a Southern California Safety Net Medical Center Vary by Sociodemographic Factors. Vaccines 2022, 10, 1247. Click here for article
IRB Interim Chair/Committee Member, resuming human subjects research policy & procedures, Claremont Graduate University https://my.cgu.edu/it/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/10/CGU_HSR_policy_COVID_10-13-20.pdf Updated: https://my.cgu.edu/research/human-subjects-research-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Consulting Epidemiologist, Back-to-Campus Taskforce, All Saints Church, Pasadena https://allsaints-pas.org/all-saints-updated-covid-19-protocols/ and https://allsaints-pas.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/All-Saints-Church-COVID_033021.pdf and https://allsaints-pas.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/All-Saints-Church-COVID_033021.pdf
Member, The Claremont Colleges COVID-19 Safety Planning Group, Testing Subcommittee
Contributor, “COVID-19 Latest research news” summaries, Inequality and Policy Research Center, Claremont Graduate University at https://research.cgu.edu/democratic-renewal/covid-19/
Blogger, School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University Blog https://mycampus.cgu.edu/web/scgh/blog
Source, subject matter expertise
- Kaiser Health News and Politifact Healthcheck
- “DeSantis Advances Questionable Link Between Lockdowns and Despair” by Phil Galewitz February 24, 2021 https://khn.org/news/article/desantis-advances-questionable-link-between-lockdowns-and-despair/
- Politifact, the Poynter Institute
- “You’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19. What can you do now?” by Louis Jacobson March 11, 2021 https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/mar/11/youre-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19-now-what-c/
- "People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low." by Louis Jacobson December 8, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/08/joe-biden/many-americans-say-they-dont-want-vaccine-should-w/
- "We are rounding the turn (on coronavirus). We are rounding the corner." by Louis Jacobson October 23, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/23/donald-trump/no-fight-against-coronavirus-isnt-rounding-corner-/
- “How much did protests contribute to LA’s COVID-19 surge? Data is still sparse” by Chris Nichols July 21, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/21/how-much-did-protests-contribute-las-covid-19-surg/
- “We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19” by Louis Jacobson July 20, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-say-us-has-one-lowest-mortality/
- “Is a Second Wave of Coronavirus Coming” by Louis Jacobson June 22, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jun/22/second-wave-coronavirus-coming/
- “VP Mike Pence says Oklahoma flattened the COVID-19 curve. That’s False” by Louis Jacobson June 16, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/16/mike-pence/has-oklahoma-flattened-curve-mike-pence-said/
- “How could reopenings, protests affect coronavirus infections?” by Louis Jacobson June 9, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jun/09/how-could-reopenings-protests-affect-coronavirus-i/
- “Are coronavirus cases going down all over the US?” by Louis Jacobson May 28, 2020 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/28/donald-trump/are-coronavirus-cases-going-down-all-over-us/
- The Student Life, “Q&A: CGU epidemiologist Nicole M. Gatto talks COVID-19, masks and politics” by Gabe Fisher, November 18, 2020 https://tsl.news/qa-cgu-epidemiologist-nicole-m-gatto-covid/
- Los Angeles Times, “Is a routine trip to the doctor or dentist now a health hazard?” by David Lazarus, August 21, 2020 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-08-21/column-coronavirus-healthcare-exams
- NY City News Service, “The Big Cost of a Little Confusion” by Sonya Swink, June 2, 2020 https://www.nycitynewsservice.com/2020/06/the-big-cost-of-a-little-confusion/
- New York Times, The Upshot, “When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again”, By Quoctrung Bui, Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz, June 8, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/08/upshot/when-epidemiologists-will-do-everyday-things-coronavirus.html
Member, Community Care Team, All Saints Church, Pasadena https://allsaints-pas.org/coronavirus/
Consulting Epidemiologist, Passteur www.passteur.com