• Health care quality measurement, reporting and improvement
• The development and assessment of materials and interventions to provide health care consumers with information to support them in choosing and using health care wisely and engaging productively in their health.
• The development and evaluation of public deliberation methods to enhance the voice of the public in health and health care decisions.
• The development and assessment of broad based coalitions and partnerships, at the local and state level, to pursue community health improvement objectives

Selected Publications

• Bryan, S., S. Sofaer, T. Siegelberg and M. Gold, “Rehabilitating Rationing:  Has the Time Come for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis?” 2009 Health Economics Policy and the Law, epub ahead of print
• Sofaer, S., “Navigating Poorly Charted Territories:  Patient Dilemmas in Health Care ‘Non-Systems’” 2009, Medical Care Research and Review Vol. 66: pps 75S-93S.
• Sofaer, S. "Using the idea of "patient centered" care to elucidate "decent care" for HIV/AIDS" in Karpf, T. Editor, Restoring Hope: Building a Foundation for Decent Care" Palgrave Press, Fall, 2008
• Gold, M.R., S. Sofaer and T. Seigelberg, “Medicare and Cost Effectiveness Analysis:  Time to Ask the Taxpayers?” 2007 Health Affairs,  Vol. 26(5): 1399-1406.
• Sofaer, S. and K. Firminger, “Patient Perceptions of the Quality of Health Services” 2005 Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 26: 513-559.
• Lubetkin, E.I., S. Sofaer, M.R. Gold, M.L. Berger, J.F. Murray and S.M. Teutsch, “Performance Measurement to Maximize Individual and Population Health:  Is That Where We Are Going” 2003 American Journal of Public Health Vol 93(3): 406-11.

Education

• M.P.H. UC Berkeley School of Public Health
• Dr.P.H, UC Berkeley School of Public Health