[1] As a teenager, she co-established a "Free School" which aimed at providing school-aged children with an alternative learning system.
Following this, Buchwald became a Henry J. Kaiser Fellow in general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
[6] Beyond this, Buchwald also directed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cooperative Research Center where she conducted studies with twins using the Department of Licensing identification system.
[7][8] Buchwald left UW in 2015 to join the faculty at Washington State University (WSU) as the director of their Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH).
[12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Buchwald received a grant to address the lack of COVID information and testing being spread among American Indian and Native Alaskan populations.