She remained at Georgia State for her doctoral research, where she studied public health interventions for adolescents diagnosed with sickle cell disease.
After losing her father to cancer whilst she was still at high school, Baskin became interested in why physical and psychological distress was still so taboo in communities of colour.
[6] The report was released fifty years after the protests in Birmingham marking when the Jim Crow laws were overruled.
The report collected information of life expectancy, infant mortality and access to healthy food in various areas across the county, and studied how they depended on the demographics of the communities (including ethnicity and socioeconomic status).
[7] In 2015 Baskin was awarded an National Cancer Institute grant to develop strategies to prevent obesity in African American women.
[8] Her research has shown the close relationships between cancer and obesity, and identified that African American women are most at risk.