For more than a decade, she has focused on addressing the need for complete, accurate and easily accessible health information among frontline public health practitioners, first responders and local health officials. As a member of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice epidemiology team, she has designed competency-based epidemiology training materials covering topics such as the conduct of outbreak investigations, study design, data analysis and program evaluation. More recently, Baseman has designed and developed online epidemiology trainings in areas such as public health surveillance and infectious disease epidemiology and is especially interested in collaborating with emergency preparedness workers in King County. She has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington.