J. Tom Mueller

Understanding Health, Well-being, and the Environment in Rural America


J. Tom Mueller, PhD

Assistant Professor of Population Health,
University of Kansas Medical Center


Hello! I am a rural sociologist and demographer focused on inequality, health, and well-being in rural America. With a particular focus on environmental and natural resource issues, I attempt to understand why some places have persistently lower health and well-being than others, and what we can do to fix that.

Please visit the links above, or to the left if you are on your phone, to learn more about my research on the relationship between spatial inequality, environment, health, and well-being.

Curriculum Vitae