Community based health interventions; obesity prevention, disease prevention, and health programs for minority and underserved populations including children, adolescents and adults with developmental/intellectual disabilities.

Following work as a nutritionist in a research study at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute in Boston and conducting nutrition assessments as part of a multidisciplinary team at the Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders, I entered a doctoral program in nutrition at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina.  My recent projects include “Hope Works”, a participatory, community-led program focused on multiple levels of influence and designed to improve health for women by enhancing participants’ ability to envision, act on, and achieve goals that will lead to the desired health and life changes, evaluation of a preschool nutrition, physical activity and food service education program, “Be Active Kids,” and a physical activity intervention involving a dance videogame for 7-8 year old children called “Dancer.”  Outside of work I enjoy getting out in nature as much as possible (hiking, canoeing, camping, and biking) and am an avid organic vegetable gardener with a recent passion for keeping chickens. 

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N

Research Assistant, Center for Health Promotion/Disease Prevention University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Alguire, C, Campbell Hunter, J, & Kelsey, K. (2007). The Garden Cooking Group: An Interdisciplinary
             Occupation-Centered Program for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.  OT Practice, 12(10):17-22.

Easter M, Linnan LA, Bentley ME, DeVellis BM, Meier A, Frasier PY, Kelsey KS, Campbell MK (2006).  “Una Mujer Trabaja
             Doble Aqui”: Vignette-based Focus Groups on Stress and Work for Latina Blue-Collar Women in Eastern
             North Carolina.   Health Promotion Practice; 8(1):41-49.

Kelsey KS, DeVellis BE, Begum M, Belton L, Hooten EG, Campbell MK. (2006). Positive affect, exercise and
             self-reported health in blue-collar women. American Journal of Health Behavior;30(2):199-207.

Katz ML, Gordon-Larsen P, Bentley ME, Kelsey K, Shields K, Ammerman A. (2004).  “Does Skinny Mean Healthy?” Perceived
             ideal, current, and healthy body sizes among African-American girls and their female caregivers.  Ethnicity and
             Disease;14(4):533-41.

Frasier, PW, Belton, L, Hooten, E, Campbell, MK, DeVellis, B, Benedict, S, Carrillo, C, Gonzalas, P, Kelsey, K,Meier, A.(2004). 
             Disaster Down East:  Using Participatory Action Research to Explore Intimate Partner Violence in Eastern North
             Carolina. Health Education and Behavior;31 (4):69S-84S.

Sanders CG, Aycock A, Samuel-Hodge CD, Garcia BA, Kelsey KS, Garner S, Ammerman AS. (2004).
             Extending the reach of Public Health Nutrition: Training community practititioners in multilevel approaches. Journal of
             Women’s Health; 13 (5):589-597.

Gerstein DE, Woodward-Lopez G, Evans A, Kelsey K, Drewnowski A. (2004).  Clarifying Concepts about
             Macronutrients’ Effects on Satiation and Satiety. Journal of the American Dietetic Association;104 (7):1151-3.

Gordon-Larsen P, Griffiths P, Bentley ME, Kelsey K, Shields K, Ward DS, Ammerman A. (2004).  Barriers to
              physical activity: Qualitative data on caregiver-daughter habits. American Journal of Preventive
              Medicine;27(3):218-223.

Campbell, M.K., Tessaro, I., DeVellis, B., Benedict, S., Kelsey, K., Belton, L., Sanhueza, A.  (2002).  Effects of a tailored health
             promotion program for female blue-collar workers: Health Works for Women. Preventive Medicine, 34:313-323.