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Ensuring Access to High-Quality Primary Care in the United States

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A subgroup of the National Academies' Standing Committee on Primary Care will document access challenges to primary care across the lifespan and produce a report with recommendations for federal policy makers and other stakeholders to consider with the purpose of ensuring greater access to primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.

Open until March 29, 2026, 11:59 PM EDT
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Description

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Primary Care will examine the current status of access to high-quality primary care in the United States and assess the progress in implementing the access recommendations from the 2021 National Academies report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care. The committee will also document new access challenges that have emerged since 2021. The committee will develop a report with updated recommendations focusing on federal policy changes to accelerate and ensure access to high-quality primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.

Contributors

Committee

Asaf Bitton

Member

Beth Bortz

Member

Ramon Cancino

Member

Andrea A. Anderson

Co-Chair

Alex H. Krist

Co-Chair

Deborah J. Cohen

Member

Tumaini R. Coker

Member

Karen L. Fortuna

Member

Ishani Ganguli

Member

Cheryl Giscombe

Member

Carlos Gonzalez

Member

Kevin Grumbach

Member

Lauren S. Hughes

Member

Yalda Jabbarpour

Member

Eboni Winford

Member

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Comment on Provisional Committee Appointments

Viewers may communicate with the National Academies at any time over the project's duration. In addition, formal comments on the provisional appointments to a committee of the National Academies are solicited during the 20-calendar day period following the posting of the membership and, as described below, these comments will be considered before committee membership is finalized. We welcome your comments (Use the Feedback link below). Please note that the appointments made to this committee are provisional, and changes may be made. No appointment shall be considered final until we have evaluated relevant information bearing on the committee's composition and balance. This information will include the confidential written disclosures to The National Academies by each member-designate concerning potential sources of bias and conflict of interest pertaining to his or her service on the committee; information from discussion of the committee's composition and balance that is conducted in closed session at its first event and again whenever its membership changes; and any public comments that we have received on the membership during the 20-calendar day formal public comment period. If additional members are appointed to this committee, an additional 20-calendar day formal public comment period will be allowed. It is through this process that we determine whether the committee contains the requisite expertise to address its task and whether the points of views of individual members are adequately balanced such that the committee as a whole can address its charge objectively.

Sponsors

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Nursing

American Board of Family Medicine

American College of Physicians

Arnold Ventures

California Health Care Foundation

Commonwealth Fund

Healing Works Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund

National League for Nursing

New York State Health Foundation

Samueli Foundation

Society for General Internal Medicine

Staff

Marc Meisnere

Lead

Makeda Haughton

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