Anna Mueller receives $1.2M NIH grant to help schools address youth suicide

The risk of suicide is an increasing reality for U.S. high school students, and schools need evidence-based guidance to address the risk and help their students confront the issue, according to Indiana University Bloomington social scientist Anna Mueller.

Mueller recently received a $1.24 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance her ongoing research on schools and youth suicide. Dr. Mueller, Senior Research Program Leader at the Irsay, leads the Lives & Death of Trauma & Despair research area. She is currently the Luther Dana Waterman Associate Professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Sociology.