The primary research interests of CBSSM faculty focus on six overarching themes:
- Research Ethics (led by Raymond De Vries and Kayte Spector-Bagdady)
- Clinical Ethics (led by Andrew Shuman and Christian Vercler)
- Health Communication and Decision Making (led by Brian Zikmund-Fisher)
- Medicine and Society (led by Raymond De Vries)
- Health, Justice, and Community (led by Susan Goold)
- Genomics, Health and Society (led by J. Scott Roberts)