Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, Ph.D.

At the Nutrition Initiatives & Community Health Equity (NICHE) lab, our work focuses on identifying and developing effective multi-component food retail and charitable food system interventions that increase access to nutritious options in under-resourced communities and encourage healthy choices.

During a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, my colleagues and I identified barriers and facilitators of fruit and vegetable consumption in Eastern Travis County, as well as the differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security and parent food purchasing. I finished both graduate degrees at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Throughout my doctoral studies, I worked in the Division of Behavioral Medicine where we developed a grocery-shopping intervention for parents interested in buying healthier food for their families using the NIH Stage Model of Behavioral Intervention Development to create an ecological momentary intervention delivered to parents smartphones. 

Currently, the NICHE lab aims to 1) develop effective food retail interventions for areas with limited access to food, 2) identify the impact of nutritious no-prep meals, meal kits, and complementary nutrition intervention strategies developed with and for people that use food pantries and safety-net clinics, and 3) identify strategies to curtail weight regain after patients stop taking GLP-1 Receptor Agonist (RA) medications for weight loss.

• Charitable Food System
• Food access
• Food equity
• Food retail
• Immunizations

Featured Publications

Feasibility and implementation of a grocery shopping intervention for adults diagnosed with or at-risk for type 2 diabetes.

Hollis-Hansen K, Tan S, Bargnesi S, McGovern L, Drozdowsky J, Epstein LH, Leone LA, Mak E, Masci J, Anzman-Frasca S, Public Health Nutr 2023 Jul 1-12

Supporting Food and Nutrition Security Among Migrant, Immigrant, and Refugee Populations.

Steeves BA, Hollis-Hansen K, McElrone M, Nur H, Landry MJ, J Nutr Educ Behav 2023 Feb 55 2 83-84

Objective and perceived barriers and facilitators of daily fruit and vegetable consumption among under-resourced communities in Central Texas.

Hollis-Hansen K, Janda KM, Tiscareño M, Filipowicz C, van den Berg A, Appetite 2022 Sep 176 106130

Family Food Insecurity, Food Acquisition, and Eating Behavior Over 6 Months Into the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Hollis-Hansen K, Ferrante MJ, Goldsmith J, Anzman-Frasca S, J Nutr Educ Behav 2022 May

Mothers' DASH diet adherence and food purchases after week-long episodic future thinking intervention.

Hollis-Hansen K, Seidman J, O'Donnell S, Epstein LH, Appetite 2020 11 154 104757

An ecological momentary episodic future thinking intervention on mother's weekly food purchases.

Hollis-Hansen K, Seidman J, O'Donnell S, Wedderburn A, Stanar S, Brande S, Epstein LH, Health Psychol 2020 Feb 39 2 159-167

The introduction of new food retail opportunities in lower-income communities and the impact on fruit and vegetable intake: a systematic review.

Hollis-Hansen K, Vermont L, Zafron ML, Seidman J, Leone L, Transl Behav Med 2019 10 9 5 837-846

Episodic future thinking and grocery shopping online.

Hollis-Hansen K, Seidman J, O'Donnell S, Epstein LH, Appetite 2019 02 133 1-9

Improvements in episodic future thinking methodology: Establishing a standardized episodic thinking control.

Hollis-Hansen K, O'Donnell SE, Seidman JS, Brande SJ, Epstein LH, PLoS One 2019 14 3 e0214397

Mix and Match: An Investigation into Whether Episodic Future Thinking Cues Need to Match Discounting Delays in Order to Be Effective.

O'Donnell S, Hollis-Hansen K, Epstein LH, Behav Sci (Basel) 2018 Dec 9 1

• Cities Fellow for Planet Texas 2050, Equitable and Regenerative Cities Research Project
  "Ensuring food security and equity through resilience hubs across Travis County" (2022)
• Early Career Grant
  The Obesity Society (2022-2023)
• University at Buffalo Paul T. Wietig Community Service Award
  (2019)

• University at Buffalo, State University of New York (2016-2020)
• University at Buffalo, State University of New York (2014-2016)
• University of Texas at Austin (2020-2022)