Dr. Palmer has written extensively on topics related to genetics, genetic counseling, genetic testing, and statistical genetics methods, including publications that specifically address genetic counseling, genetic testing, genetic evaluation, deafness, and health outcomes. She has been the PI of extramurally-funded projects since 1995, including two NSF awards to conduct research on risk perception; a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary NIDCD-funded project assessing the role of Connexin 26 testing as an adjunct to newborn hearing screening; a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary NHGRI-funded project assessing the impact of genetic testing on deaf adults and the deaf community; a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary NCI-funded project to increase access to genetic information to the Deaf community through development of materials in American Sign Language; and most recently, NHGRI awards to establish UCLA as a clinical site within the nationally organized Undiagnosed Disease Network to use next generation sequencing technologies to identify etiology of rare and unknown disorders.