[3] She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

[9] Beginning in 2009, she served as the program director for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative.

Since being appointed to this position, which was the largest she had ever held,[12] she helped lead the city's response to the Ebola virus cases in the United States that were first reported in the fall of 2014.

[15] In February 2015, she wrote a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the adverse health effects of racial discrimination against African Americans.

In this talk, Bassett spoke about witnessing the AIDS epidemic firsthand in Zimbabwe and setting up a clinic to treat and educate people about the virus.