Dr. Kate Guastaferro

Biography

Kate Guastaferro is an intervention scientist whose training and work are dedicated to the development, optimization, implementation, and evaluation of effective, efficient, and affordable scalable interventions with high public health impact. Her expertise lies in the multiphase optimization strategy and focuses on creating parent-focused, multicomponent behavioral interventions to prevent child maltreatment. Dr. Guastaferro co-led a statewide trial aimed at the coordinated implementation of evidence-based child sexual abuse prevention programs. This project included a trial of a parent-focused program designed to prevent child sexual abuse, which was developed, piloted, and evaluated under her leadership. Currently, her work emphasizes the integration of intervention optimization strategies to prevent child maltreatment. Before joining New York University, she served as an assistant research professor in human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State University and was an affiliate of the Prevention Research Center for Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. She received her PhD and MPH from Georgia State University’s School of Public Health and her BA in anthropology from Boston University. Additionally, she completed one year of postdoctoral training at Pennsylvania State University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Prevention Methodology Training Program.

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