Barbara Jean Burns

Barbara Jean Burns (9 November 1941 – 28 January 2024) was an American academic, psychiatrist, mental health services researcher, and educator.

Biography Burns received her bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky, her master's degree from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from Boston College.

Burns held various positions at Boston College, Harvard University, Hood College, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University before moving to Duke. Burns worked for 31 years at the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Department at Duke University until her retirement in June 2020. At Duke, she was co-director of the psychiatric, epidemiology, and health services research program from 1989 to 1997.