Dr. Kate Guastaferro
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Dr. Kate Guastaferro
@kguastaferrophd.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @ NYU Public Health | Co- Director of CADIO
Interested in optimization of behavioral interventions & the prevention of child maltreatment
Looking forward to a big year for the Safe Futures Lab! Check out my recent office acquisition- made by my stellar research coordinator,Ella, my team has many talents! ✨
January 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Last class of the 2024 fall semester ✅

My doctoral class on intervention optimization was just so full of joy. These public health professionals are ones to watch! 💫🌟
December 13, 2024 at 2:08 AM
I had one heck of a week, y’all! On Sunday I got to give a preconference workshop on intervention optimization & implementation science, then jetted off to ATL to train my longtime colleagues and friends to help deliver my CSA module & then plan the next grant! So tired, and so happy! 🤓
December 11, 2024 at 11:13 PM
The Smart Parents Study Team got to spend time with Dr. Shannon Self-Brown from Georgia State University!

Shannon is my long time mentor, collaborator, and friend. So lucky to have her as a consultant on my R01. We are cooking up big things!
December 7, 2024 at 12:10 AM
The recruitment phase for my R01, the Smart Parents Study is complete! 🥳 We are delighted to partner with 23 PAT Affiliates across 15 states! We have also recruited our first parents into the the study!! 🎉

Stay tuned for the #SmartParentsStudy training adventures in 2025!
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
So so proud of my lab- only a fraction of whom are in this picture. They all mean the world to me, make my job fun, and are actively working to keep kids and families safe and healthy. I am SO proud.

Congratulations to all of our graduating lab members! ✨ I can’t wait to see what you do next!
May 2, 2024 at 12:38 AM
The feeling is so mutual @alicitadelfina.bsky.social!! 🥰
So grateful for my mentor/CSA prevention collaborator @kguastaferrophd.bsky.social! We speak the same language when it comes to CSA prevention, it's such a nice feeling.
March 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM
New Pub! Home visiting programs could offer a point of intervention for secure firearm storage, but what do home visitors think?

Read what we found in among SafeCare providers here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
March 7, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Great week at University of Michigan for CATIE training hosted by d3Center!
February 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Some #FullThrottleFriday motivation. Not mad about this wordcloud!

scholargoggler.com
February 9, 2024 at 10:24 PM
New Paper Alert! "Intervention #Optimization: A Paradigm Shift & its Potential Implications for Clinical Psychology" is out now in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/...
February 7, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Delighted to share the newest publication from my lab!

Led by my stellar MPH student, Nusrat, we leveraged a natural experiment to explore alternative delivery modality for a school-based child sexual abuse #prevention program!

www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21...
January 29, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Back from the UW Suicide Care Research Center kickoff meeting in Seattle. Grateful for this opportunity to learn from this team & think about how to apply intervention optimization!

Plus 2 full days w/ Kelly Rulison from Prevention Strategies
= a dream!
January 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Excited to be at the University of Washington’s Suicide Care Research Center’s kick off retreat. I am serving in the Expert Research Advisory Board and eager to talk all things intervention #optimization with this crowd! #publichealth
January 25, 2024 at 5:08 PM
So exciting to see Smarter Parents. Safer Kids. out in the wild! Workshops now being offered by Lehigh Valley Health Network's Weller Health Education Team!
January 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Excited to bring back #FullThrottleFriday for 2024.

📢New pub! Dr. Stacey L. Shipe & I describe the prevalence of child maltreatment by type & age and discuss implications for #prevention. #thisispublichealth

www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21...
January 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Health promotion efforts, specifically to prevent child sexual abuse, have underutilized social media. Check out our first step in this line of research... more to come!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EYZIH...
December 15, 2023 at 1:31 PM
New pub on achieving reach, effectiveness, and equity in multilevel interventions! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 4, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Had a great visit to the BCTR at Cornell!
November 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM
My NYU GPH 2nd year MPH student Nusrat is with me presenting at #GSA2023! Super proud!!
November 9, 2023 at 7:08 PM
Beautiful morning in Tampa filled with my favorite topic, intervention #optimization!

#GSA2023
November 8, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Hard launch of my lab website! Super proud of the work my students and I are doing to prevent child maltreatment!

sites.google.com/nyu.edu/aimp...
November 2, 2023 at 12:18 PM
Friday writing at Union Station. ✨
October 27, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Grateful to have been invited to join this exciting methods panel and share intervention #optimization with the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research.
October 25, 2023 at 6:56 PM