Helen Wilson Burns (she/her)

Helen Wilson Burns is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Studies and a graduate affiliate of the CU Population Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. As an environmental demographer, my research examines intersections of migration, population health, environmental change, and rurality using interdisciplinary methods.

My work spans geographic contexts and demographic inquires, from investigating women’s migration and post-COVID well-being in Bangladesh to analyzing disaster impacts and rural health vulnerabilities in the United States. I am most interested in work that uses detailed data about people’s lives to understand and complicate large, complex demographic trends.

I contribute methodological expertise in research design, data integration, and advanced analysis to multidisciplinary, multi-university collaborations. I excel at synthesizing complex spatial-temporal data from diverse sources to address pressing social and environmental changes.