Meredith Bagwell-Gray

Meredith Bagwell-Gray, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. She earned a PhD in Social Work from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2016, and in 2017 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the ASU Office of Gender Based Violence. With an emphasis on health equity research, Dr. Bagwell-Gray studies the intersections of race, gender, and age with environmental factors, like living in rural areas, and contextual factors, like experiencing intimate partner violence, on women’s health and safety. Her current research involves designing and testing a trauma-informed approach to promote sexual health and prevent cervical cancer among survivors of intimate partner violence, a project currently supported by an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her work includes understanding, preventing and intervening to address sexual violence in intimate relationships. Dr. Bagwell-Gray received a Master of Science in Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, and her research is informed by direct practice social work experiences as an advocate and therapist with survivors of partner violence.