Faculty Affiliates
Honoria Guarino, PhD
Honoria Guarino, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
Dr. Guarino is an anthropologist who specializes in mixed-methods research on drug use and HIV/HCV infection. Much of her work involves the development and evaluation of behavioral interventions, especially technology-based interventions, for people who use drugs and other groups at risk for blood-borne disease. She also conducts research to examine the influence of multi-level contextual factors on vulnerability and resilience to the negative health impacts of drug use. Dr. Guarino has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous federally-funded studies with a broad range of drug-using populations and other vulnerable groups, including young adults who use opioids, people who inject drugs, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, migrant Puerto Ricans in New York City and chronic pain patients.
Dr. Guarino received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She was previously the Director of the Center for Technology and Health at National Development and Research Institutes in New York City and is currently an Affiliated Investigator with the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research at the NYU School of Global Public Health.
Selected Publications
- Gelpi-Acosta C, Guarino H, Benoit E, Deren S, Pouget ER, & Rodriguez A. Injection risk norms and practices among migrant Puerto Rican people who inject drugs in New York City: The limits of acculturation theory. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Jul;69:60-69. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.03.016. PMID: 31196730. View Source
- Palamar JJ, Le A, Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P. A comparison of the utility of urine and hair testing in detecting self-reported drug use among young adult opioid users. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 May 22;200:161-167. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.04.008. PMID: 31146203. View Source
- Quinn K, Fong C, Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P. Development, validation, and potential applications of the hepatitis C virus injection-risk knowledge scale (HCV-IRKS) among young opioid users in New York City. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Jan 1;194:453-459. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.11.010. PMID: 30503906. View Source
- Mateu-Gelabert P, Guarino H, Quinn K, Meylakhs P, Campos S, Meylakhs A, Berbesi D, Toro-Tobón D, Goodbody E, Ompad DC, Friedman SR. Young drug users: A vulnerable population and an underutilized resource in HIV/HCV prevention. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2018 Aug;15(4):324-335. doi: 10.1007/s11904-018-0406-z. PMID: 29931468; PMCID: PMC6309604. View Source
- Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P, Teubl J, Goodbody E. Young adults’ opioid use trajectories: From nonmedical prescription opioid use to heroin use, drug injection, drug treatment and overdose. Addictive Behaviors. Special Issue on Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose, edited by Karran Phillips and Kenzie Preston. 2018. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.04.017. PMID: 29747875. View Source
- Guarino H, Fong C, Marsch LA, Acosta MC, Syckes C, Moore SK, Cruciani RA, Portenoy RK, Turk DC, Rosenblum A. Web-based cognitive behavior therapy for chronic pain patients with aberrant drug-related behavior: Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial. Pain Medicine. 2018;0:1–15. doi:10.1093/pm/pnx334. View Source
- Aronson ID, Guarino H, Bennett AS, Marsch LA, Gwadz M, Cleland CM, Damschroder L, Bania TC. Staff perspectives on a tablet-based intervention to increase HIV Testing in a high volume, urban emergency department. Front Public Health. 2017 Jul 11;5:170. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00170. PMID: 28744454; PMCID: PMC5504145. View Source
- Gunn A, Guarino H. "Not human, dead already": Perceptions and experiences of drug-related stigma among opioid-using young adults from the former Soviet Union living in the U.S. Int J Drug Policy. 2016 Dec;38:63-72. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.10.012. PMID: 27855325; PMCID: PMC5302021. View Source
- Guarino H, Acosta M, Marsch LA, Xie H, Aponte-Melendez Y. A mixed-methods evaluation of the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a mobile intervention for methadone maintenance clients. Psychol Addict Behav. 2016 Feb;30(1):1-11. doi: 10.1037/adb0000128. PMID: 26618796; PMCID: PMC4924621. View Source
- Marsch LA, Guarino H, Grabinski MJ, Syckes C, Dillingham ET, Xie H, Crosier BS. Comparative effectiveness of web-based vs. educator-delivered HIV prevention for adolescent substance users: A randomized, controlled trial. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2015 Dec;59:30-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2015.07.003. PMID: 26293644; PMCID: PMC4661099. View Source
- Marsch LA, Guarino H, Acosta M, Aponte-Melendez Y, Cleland C, Grabinski M,Brady R, Edwards J. Web-based behavioral treatment for substance use disorders as a partial replacement of standard methadone maintenance treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2014 Jan;46(1):43-51. PMID: 24060350; PMCID: PMC3839618. View Source