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Honoria Guarino, PhD
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy - Research Associate Professor
Email: honoria.guarino@sph.cuny.edu
Education
PhD, Anthropology, University of Arizona
MA, Anthropology, University of Arizona
BA, Anthropology/Fine Arts, New York University
Research Interests
Opioid use and misuse, Development and evaluation of behavioral interventions for drug use and HIV/HCV prevention, eHealth/mHealth, Sociocultural contexts of risk
BIO

Honoria Guarino is a Research Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Dr. Guarino is an anthropologist who specializes in mixed-methods, qualitative and ethnographic research on drug use and HIV/HCV infection. Her work focuses on the influence of multi-level contextual factors on vulnerability and resilience to the negative health impacts of drug use, and the development and evaluation of behavioral interventions, especially technology-based interventions, for people who use drugs and those vulnerable to HIV/HCV. Dr. Guarino has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous federally-funded studies with a broad range of drug-using populations, including young adults who use opioids and people who inject drugs, as well as immigrants from the former Soviet Union, migrant Puerto Ricans in New York City and opioid-treated chronic pain patients.

Projects
Principal Investigator, Ending HIV and Taming HCV and Overdose Among Puerto Rican PWID in New York City: The Ganchero Intervention. Active
Principal Investigator, Developing and Implementing an Innovative Methodology for Evaluating Participant Engagement in Technology-Based Behavioral Health Interventions. Completed
Principal Investigator, Mobile Intervention for Opioid-Using Military Veterans with Chronic Pain. Completed
Principal Investigator, Opioid Use and HIV/HCV Risk Among Immigrant Youth from the Former Soviet Union. Completed
Principal Investigator, Preventing Injection: An mHealth Intervention That Leverages Social Networks to Prevent Progression to Injection Among Young Opioid Users. Completed
Principal Investigator, Staying Safe Intervention: Preventing HCV Among Youth Opioid Injectors. Completed
Publications

Recent

Zimba R, Fong C, Conte M, Guarino H, Avoundjian T, Carmona J, Herndon G, Gambone G, Irvine MK, Nash D (2025).
Are client and provider preferences for HIV care coordination programme features concordant? Discrete choice experiments in Ryan White part A-funded New York City care coordination programmes
BMJ Open, 15 (6), e097918. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097918. PMCID: PMC12198845.

Emmert C, Avoundjian T, Irvine M, Tapia-Munoz T, Schenkel R, Hernandez M, Kozlowski S, Nash D, Guarino H (2025).
“We’re going to be here”: Providers’ perspectives on implementing a revised HIV care coordination program
AIDS Patient Care and STDs [Epub 2025 Jun 12]. doi: 10.1089/apc.2025.0047.

Mateu-Gelabert P, Pratt S, Guarino H, Hallack R, Fong C, Eckhardt B (2024).
HCV prevalence and phylogenetic characteristics in a cross-sectional, community study of young people who inject drugs in New York City: Opportunity for and threats to HCV elimination
Health Science Reports, 7 (7), e2211. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.2211. PMCID: PMC11217018.

Jessell L, Mateu-Gelabert P, Guarino H, Fong C (2024).
Why young women who use opioids are at risk for rape: The impact of social vulnerabilities and sexually coercive drug using contexts
Violence Against Women, 50 (5), 1035-1052. doi: 10.1177/10778012221137921.

Hernandez M, Guarino H, Kozlowski S, Srivastava A, Schenkel R, Tapia T, Seabrook TB, Nash D, Irvine MK (2024).
Addressing mental health barriers in HIV care coordination is crucial to providing optimal HIV/AIDS care
AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 38 (3), 107-114. doi: 10.1089/apc.2023.0240. PMCID: PMC11301708.

Dr. Guarino's Google Scholar Profile
Selected Press
If In Doubt, Give Naloxone!
Janie Simmons and Honoria Guarino provided training on how to administer naloxone as part of International Overdose Awareness Day.