Katherine Sterba, Ph.D.
Developing and testing digital health supportive care interventions to facilitate positive care transitions for cancer survivors and their caregivers while using implementation science principles to evaluate implementation processes
Research Interest
I am a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). I am a behavioral scientist with training in health behavior and health education, implementation science and scale development and measurement. My research over the past 15 years at MUSC has focused on the development, testing and dissemination of family-focused interventions to improve care transitions for cancer survivors and their informal caregivers. This research spans the intervention development spectrum and is guided by behavioral theories and implementation science principles to facilitate behavior change and timely, sustained intervention uptake. My research uses mixed methods and relies on building partnerships with interdisciplinary research teams and community members.