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
Engaging adult drug court clients in leisure activities to promote recovery and pro-social interactions.
Failed retrieving data.Examining patterns of child maltreatment history and adulthood mental health and substance use outcomes.
Failed retrieving data.Getting the most juice for the squeeze: Where SafeCare® and other evidence-based programs need to evolve to better protect children
Failed retrieving data.Implementing a braided home-based parent support curriculum: Lessons learned
Failed retrieving data.Innovations in parent-training interventions for parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Failed retrieving data.Innovative Methods: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST).
Failed retrieving data.Introduction to the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) for building more effective, efficient, economical, and scalable behavioral and biobehavioral interventions.
Failed retrieving data.Maltreatment of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Story of Mothers with IDD – Relationships and Social Networks.
Failed retrieving data.Parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention: A brief overview of curriculum development and pilot testing.
Failed retrieving data.Parents as Teachers + SafeCare at Home (PATSCH): Collaboration to meet the needs of families.
Failed retrieving data.Systematic braiding as an intervention strategy for families at high-risk: Results of a cluster randomized trial.
Failed retrieving data.Systematic braiding of 2 evidence-based parent training programs: Qualitative results from the pilot phase
Failed retrieving data.A preliminary analysis of the relationship between hazards in the home and the potential for abuse with families at-risk
Failed retrieving data.A story of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Relationships and social networks
Failed retrieving data.Coalition for Research on Engagement & Well-being: 3 Pilot Studies.
Failed retrieving data.Maltreatment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan
Failed retrieving data.Parent-infant interaction training with a Latino mother
Failed retrieving data.Practices targeting child neglect: The use of SafeCare® to enhance parenting skills to reduce neglect
Failed retrieving data.The Evaluation of Parents as Teachers (PAT) + SafeCare to Improve Outcomes for High-Risk Families.
Failed retrieving data.Training mothers recoving from substance abuse to identify and treat their children's illnesses
Failed retrieving data.Using a technological augmentation to enhance parent-infant interactions with parents at risk
Failed retrieving data.An exploratory study of grandparents raising grandchildren and the criminal justice system: A research note
Failed retrieving data.Collaborative Home Visiting: Working Together to Create a Braided Curriculum.
Failed retrieving data.Use of mobile phones to help prevent child maltreatment
Failed retrieving data.A qualitative discussion of technology enhanced service delivery: Parent and provider considerations.
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