and studied how they depended on the demographics of the communities (including ethnicity and socioeconomic status). She identified that Black mothers in Jefferson County were 2.5 times more likely to die during child birth as white mothers, and that Black households in Jefferson County had annual incomes $22,000 below the federal poverty guideline. The report made a series of recommendations, including funding early childhood education programmes, implementing financial programmes to provide healthy food in poor neighbourhoods and expanding Medicaid. In 2015 Baskin was awarded an National Cancer Institute grant to develop strategies to prevent obesity in African American women. Her research has shown the close relationships between cancer and obesity, and identified that African American women are most at risk. Baskin is Chair of the Jefferson County Collaborative for Health Equity, an organisation which looks to eliminate health disparities through public policy. In 2020 she was elected President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Selected publications Awards and honours 1997 American Psychological Association Minority Fellow 2007 Jefferson County Public Health Hero Awards 2013 University of Alabama Institute for Rural Health Research Rural Health Heroes Award 2016 Max Cooper Award for Excellence in Research 2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Leader 2017 Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine Personal life Baskin has two daughters. One of her daughters, Kennedy, studied neuroscience at Emory University. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Public health researchers Emory University alumni University of Alabama faculty Georgia State University alumni African-American women academics American women academics African-American academics 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women