Rachel M. Burns

Biography

Rachel Burns earned her MPH degree in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is presently a project associate at the RAND Corporation and primarily works within the Center for Military Health Policy Research. During her tenure at RAND, she has contributed to projects focused on mental health and well-being of military personnel returning from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, suicide epidemiology and prevention, the impact of deployment on the well-being of children and families of military members, mental health and well-being of gifted children, adolescent health behaviors, occupational health and safety, access to and utilization of health care services, vaccinations, and patient safety and quality of care in hospitals. She is a proficient SAS programmer and has experience in qualitative and quantitative data management, collection, and analysis.