Kelsey Holt, MA, ScD
Associate Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

She has partnered with researchers, advocates, and implementing partners across more than ten countries on projects to build the evidence base on people’s preferences for and experiences with reproductive healthcare; to develop new frameworks and measures to advance a focus on human rights and person-centeredness in sexual and reproductive health; and to develop and evaluate novel interventions to promote reproductive health and agency. Her current projects span Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.

• Preference-Aligned Fertility Management as a Person-Centered Alternative to Contraceptive Use-Focused Measures.
  Studies in family planning 2023 Holt K, Galavotti C, Omoluabi E, Challa S, Waiswa P, Liu J
• Reduction of the Quality of Contraceptive Counseling (QCC) scale to a short version (QCC-10) in Ethiopia, India, and Mexico.
  Contraception 2022 Holt K, Karp C, Uttekar BV, Quintero X, Gebrehanna E, Kanchan L, Zavala I
• Contraceptive care experiences and preferences among Black women in Mississippi: A qualitative study.
  Contraception 2022 Reed R, Osby O, Nelums M, Welchlin C, Konate R, Holt K
• Family Physicians' Barriers and Facilitators in Incorporating Medication Abortion.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2022 Razon N, Wulf S, Perez C, McNeil S, Maldonado L, Fields AB, Holt K, Fox E, Silverstein I, Dehlendorf C
• Client, provider, and visit factors associated with quality in contraceptive counseling in Mexico: an exploratory cross-sectional analysis.
  Reproductive health 2021 Walker K, Prata N, Lahiff M, Quintero X, Holt K
• Understanding quality of contraceptive services from women's perspectives in Gujarat, India: a focus group study.
  BMJ open 2021 Holt K, Uttekar BV, Reed R, Adams M, Kanchan L, Langer A, Barge S
• Patient-reported experience with discussion of all options during pregnancy options counseling in the US South.
  Contraception 2021 Nobel K, Ahrens K, Handler A, Holt K
• Development of the Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling scale (PCCC), a short form of the Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning care scale.
  Contraception 2021 Dehlendorf C, Fox E, Silverstein IA, Hoffman A, Campora Pérez MP, Holt K, Reed R, Hessler D
• Homelessness, housing instability, and abortion outcomes at an urban abortion clinic in the United States.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2020 Orlando MS, Vable AM, Holt K, Wingo E, Newmann S, Shapiro BJ, Borne D, Drey EA, Seidman D
• Breaking the silence in the primary care office: patients' attitudes toward discussing abortion during contraceptive counseling.
  Contraception: X 2020 Dianat S, Silverstein IA, Holt K, Steinauer J, Dehlendorf C
• Factors associated with positive user experience with primary healthcare providers in Mexico: a multilevel modelling approach using national cross-sectional data.
  BMJ open 2020 Holt K, Doubova SV, Lee D, Perez-Cuevas R, Leslie HH
• Beyond same-day long-acting reversible contraceptive access: a person-centered framework for advancing high-quality, equitable contraceptive care.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2019 Holt K, Reed R, Crear-Perry J, Scott C, Wulf S, Dehlendorf C
• Cluster Randomized Trial of a Patient-Centered Contraceptive Decision Support Tool, My Birth Control.
  Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey 2019 Christine Dehlendorf, Judith Fitzpatrick, Edith Fox, Kelsey Holt, Eric Vittinghoff, Reiley Reed, Maria Paula Campora, Abby Sokoloff, Miriam Kuppermann
• Patient-provider communication before and after implementation of the contraceptive decision support tool My Birth Control.
  Patient education and counseling 2019 Holt K, Kimport K, Kuppermann M, Fitzpatrick J, Steinauer J, Dehlendorf C
• Development and Validation of the Client-Reported Quality of Contraceptive Counseling Scale to Measure Quality and Fulfillment of Rights in Family Planning Programs.
  Studies in family planning 2019 Holt K, Zavala I, Quintero X, Hessler D, Langer A
• Cluster randomized trial of a patient-centered contraceptive decision support tool, My Birth Control.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2019 Dehlendorf C, Fitzpatrick J, Fox E, Holt K, Vittinghoff E, Reed R, Campora MP, Sokoloff A, Kuppermann M
• Women's preferences for contraceptive counseling in Mexico: Results from a focus group study.
  Reproductive health 2018 Holt K, Zavala I, Quintero X, Mendoza D, McCormick MC, Dehlendorf C, Lieberman E, Langer A
• 'These people who dig roots in the forests cannot treat HIV': Women and men in Durban, South Africa, reflect on traditional medicine and antiretroviral drugs.
  Global public health 2017 Weintraub A, Mantell JE, Holt K, Street RA, Wilkey C, Dawad S, Masvawure TB, Hoffman S
• Pregnancy Options Counseling and Abortion Referrals Among US Primary Care Physicians: Results From a National Survey.
  Family medicine 2017 Holt K, Janiak E, McCormick MC, Lieberman E, Dehlendorf C, Kajeepeta S, Caglia JM, Langer A
• Defining quality in contraceptive counseling to improve measurement of individuals' experiences and enable service delivery improvement.
  Contraception 2017 Holt K, Dehlendorf C, Langer A
• A call for collaboration on respectful, person-centered health care in family planning and maternal health.
  Reproductive health 2017 Holt K, Caglia JM, Peca E, Sherry JM, Langer A
• Predictors of pregnancy options counseling and abortion referrals or dissuasion among United States primary care physicians: results from a national survey.
  Contraception 2016 K Holt, E Janiak, MC McCormick, E Lieberman, C Dehlendorf, S Kajeepeta, JM Caglia, A Langer
• Knowledge of Abortion Laws and Services Among Low-Income Women in Three United States Cities.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2015 Lara D, Holt K, Peña M, Grossman D
• Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services: A Mixed Methods Study of Young Women's Needs and Experiences in Soweto, South Africa.
  African journal of reproductive health 2015 Lince-Deroche N, Hargey A, Holt K, Shochet T
• Reproductive health access among deployed U.S. servicewomen: a qualitative study.
  Military medicine 2014 Manski R, Grindlay K, Burns B, Holt K, Grossman D
• Military sexual trauma among US servicewomen during deployment: a qualitative study.
  American journal of public health 2013 Burns B, Grindlay K, Holt K, Manski R, Grossman D
• Military sexual trauma among U.S. servicewomen during deployment: a qualitative study.
  Contraception 2013 B. Burns, K. Grindlay, K. Holt, R. Manski, D. Grossman
• A nationally representative survey of healthcare provider counselling and provision of the female condom in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
  BMJ open 2013 Holt K, Blanchard K, Chipato T, Nhemachena T, Blum M, Stratton L, Morar N, Ramjee G, Harper CC
• O057 EVALUATION OF A HARM-REDUCTION MODEL OF SERVICE DELIVERY FOR WOMEN WITH UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES IN PERU.
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 2012 D. Andjelic, K. Holt, D. Grossman, C. Tatum
• Willingness of clinicians to integrate microbicides into HIV prevention practices in southern Africa.
  AIDS and behavior 2012 Harper CC, Holt K, Nhemachena T, Chipato T, Ramjee G, Stratton L, Blum M, McCulloch CE, Mgweba S, Blanchard K
• Assessment of service availability and health care workers' opinions about young women's sexual and reproductive health in Soweto, South Africa.
  African journal of reproductive health 2012 Holt K, Lince N, Hargey A, Struthers H, Nkala B, Mclntyre J, Gray G, Mnyani C, Blanchard K
• Contraception access and use among US military women deployed overseas.
  Contraception 2011 K. Grindlay, K. Holt, D. Grossman
• Unintended pregnancy and contraceptive use among women in the U.S. military: a systematic literature review.
  Military medicine 2011 Holt K, Grindlay K, Taskier M, Grossman D
• Impact of learning HIV status on contraceptive use in the MIRA trial.
  The journal of family planning and reproductive health care 2011 Blanchard K, Holt K, Bostrom A, van der Straten A, Ramjee G, de Bruyn G, Chipato T, Montgomery ET, Padian NS
• Self-induction of abortion among women in the United States.
  Reproductive health matters 2010 Grossman D, Holt K, Peña M, Lara D, Veatch M, Córdova D, Gold M, Winikoff B, Blanchard K
• Barriers to hospital births: why do many Bolivian women give birth at home?
  Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health 2008 Otis KE, Brett JA