Kate Guastaferro
Kate Guastaferro
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization
Director of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program
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Professional overview
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Kate Guastaferro, PhD is an intervention scientist by training, her work is devoted to the development, optimization, implementation and evaluation of effective, efficient, affordable and scalable interventions with high public health impact. She is an expert in the multiphase optimization (MOST) strategy and her expertise is in parent-focused, multicomponent behavioral interventions to prevent child maltreatment. Dr. Guastaferro co-led a statewide trial focused on the coordinated implementation of three evidence-base child sexual abuse prevention programs; included in this trial was the parent-focused child sexual abuse program that she developed, piloted and evaluated. Her current work is focused on the integration of intervention optimization into the prevention of child maltreatment.
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Guastaferro was an assistant research professor in human development and family studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and an affiliate of its Prevention Research Center and Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. In 2020, she was awarded the Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Career Success in Young Children’s Mental Health Research from the Society for Research in Child Development. She has been published in Child Maltreatment, Translational Behavioral Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Guastaferro received her PhD and MPH from Georgia State University’s School of Public Health, and her BA in anthropology from Boston University. She also completed a year of postdoctoral training at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Education
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention and Methodology Training Program (T32 DA017629), The Pennsylvania State UniversityPhD Public Health, Georgia State UniversityMPH Health Promotion, Georgia State UniversityBA Anthropology, Boston University
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Honors and awards
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Victoria S. Levin Award, Society for Research on Child Development (2020)NIH Loan Repayment Program Award: Toward the Optimization of Behavioral Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment (201820192020)Public Health Achievement Award, Georgia State University (2016)Scarlet Key Honor Society, Boston University (2008)
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Publications
Publications
Decision support training for advanced cancer family caregivers: Study protocol for the CASCADE factorial trial
Failed retrieving data.Grandparents raising grandchildren in New York state: Understanding needs of a vulnerable population.
Failed retrieving data.Guidance on selecting a translational framework for intervention development: Optimizing interventions for impact
Failed retrieving data.How lay health workers in a federally qualified community health center filled a critical void in a public health crisis
Failed retrieving data.Impact of grandparents’ chronic stress on grandparent-parent relationship and life satisfaction by gender and race.
Failed retrieving data.Implementation of a Universal School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program : A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Failed retrieving data.Intervention Optimization: Introduction to the MOST Mindset.
Failed retrieving data.Introduction to MOST: An Approach for Building more Effective and Implementable Behavioral Interventions.
Failed retrieving data.Knowledge gains from the implementation of a child sexual abuse prevention program and the future of school-based prevention education
Failed retrieving data.Multiphase optimization strategy: How to build more effective, affordable, scalable and efficient social and behavioural oral health interventions
Failed retrieving data.New York City Transit Workers: An Essential Workforce – Addressing Occupational Resilience through Intervention Optimization.
Failed retrieving data.Operationalizing primary outcomes to achieve reach, effectiveness, and equity in multilevel interventions
Failed retrieving data.Optimization of Implementation Strategies Using MOST: An Emphasis on the Factorial Design.
Failed retrieving data.Optimizing for Dissemination of a Family Navigation Intervention to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Services using MOST.
Failed retrieving data.Parenting and mental health needs of young, maltreated parents: Implications for prevention of intergenerational child maltreatment
Failed retrieving data.Preventive education outreach on social media: The quest to enroll community members in a child sexual prevention workshop
Failed retrieving data.Provider attitudes and self-efficacy when delivering a child sexual abuse prevention module: An exploratory study
Failed retrieving data.Raising expectations for D&I science: Intervention optimization as an opportunity to move toward implementability and equitability.
Failed retrieving data.Systematic braiding of Smoke-Free Home SafeCare to address child maltreatment risk and secondhand smoke exposure : findings from a pilot study
Failed retrieving data.The Why and How of Intervention Optimization: Examples of Projects using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST).
Failed retrieving data.Using implementation science to inform the preparation phase of the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework.
Failed retrieving data.Using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework to adapt a sexual and reproductive health intervention for Latina teens and female caregivers.
Failed retrieving data.What is MOST and what does it offer to advance our understanding of techniques and mechanisms that mitigate against stigma?
Failed retrieving data.American single father homes: A growing public health priority
Failed retrieving data.An (extremely) brief overview of MOST.
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