She has worked as an HIV epidemiologist at Public Health – Seattle & King County since the late 1980s. Her research focuses mostly on HIV, with some overlapping infectious diseases including hepatitis and tuberculosis. She has served as a principal investigator on several HIV surveillance projects, including incidence and drug resistance surveillance. Buskin has also investigated clinical outcomes among individuals with HIV infection. Buskin earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Washington.