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
Co-Developed Community-Based Health Interventions with Children Under 18 and Families Experiencing Homelessness in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Failed retrieving data.Co-developing SHELTER (Safe, Healthy Environments and Local Transformation for Equity and Resilience) with families with lived experience of homelessness in the New York City shelter system: A community needs assessment and data collection protocol
Failed retrieving data.Exploring Predictors of Implementation Fidelity: Baseline Provider Self-Efficacy and Attitudes Towards the Addition of a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Module to Home Visiting
Failed retrieving data.Outcome measurement for a school-based child sexual abuse prevention intervention amidst national reading-level delays
Failed retrieving data.Preliminary validation of a structured interview to assess parents' practical implementation of behavioral strategies for child sexual abuse prevention
Failed retrieving data.The HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Initiation Cascade: Patient Experiences with the Health Care System Before Starting PrEP
Failed retrieving data.Theory-based approach to increasing enrollment in a universal parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention workshop
Failed retrieving data.A Quasi-Experimental Trial of Universal Parent-Focused Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program: Recruitment Practicalities and Pitfalls
Failed retrieving data.A Scoping Review: Are U.S. Teachers Equipped to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse?
Failed retrieving data.A Site-Specific and Temporal Analysis of a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program
Failed retrieving data.Adapting a sexual and reproductive health program for Latina teens and their female caregivers: A qualitative study
Failed retrieving data.Adding a child sexual abuse prevention module to home visiting: Exploring provider self-efficacy and acceptability as predictors of implementation fidelity
Failed retrieving data.Child maltreatment
Failed retrieving data.Coordinated Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: Project Safe & Smart at Weller Health Education
Failed retrieving data.Development of a Secure Firearm Storage Module for Evidence-Based Home Visiting: A Proposed Pilot Optimization Trial
Failed retrieving data.Enhancing home visiting with a parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention program: Smart Parents Study
Failed retrieving data.Enhancing occupational therapy interventions by integrating the multiphase optimization strategy framework
Failed retrieving data.Evaluating smoking cessation interventions for people living with HIV in a factorial randomised clinical trial in South Africa using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework : The Tlogela Trial protocol
Failed retrieving data.Mandated Reporting in New York State: A Policy Note
Failed retrieving data.Optimizing Psychological Treatment for Pain after Breast Cancer using a Randomized Factorial Design: A Feasibility Study
Failed retrieving data.Pilot optimization trial of a sexual and reproductive health program for Latina teens and female caregivers: A study protocol
Failed retrieving data.Population-level reductions in child sexual abuse valid and invalid cases after a three-year coordinated, community-wide prevention initiative: Results from a synthetic control analysis
Failed retrieving data.Preparing to implement the Floreciendo sexual and reproductive health workshop: Integrating implementation science and the MOST framework
Failed retrieving data.StandUPTV : a full-factorial optimization trial to reduce sedentary screen time among adults
Failed retrieving data.The ROOTS Parenting Intervention to Improve Child Emotional and Physical Health: Protocol For A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial For Black And Latiné Families
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