Dr. Goold studies the allocation of scarce resources for health, especially how the perspectives of patients and citizens can enhance just distribution. Her health services research interests include community-based participatory research, public perspectives on health and healthcare spending priorities, physicians and stewardship, public health ethics and equity, physician reimbursement and the doctor-patient relationship, deliberative procedures in bioethics and health policy, and the philosophical and empirical study of trust relationships in healthcare settings.