She is a full member of the Cancer Control Research Group at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Blair holds a master in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota and completed a postdoctoral fellowship on the National Cancer Institute R25 Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She joined UNM in 2015 and is a recipient of the Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral Sciences, and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07) from the National Cancer Institute.