Decades of AHRQ research studies, extensive consultation with stakeholders and results from a primary care research summit have identified research needs central to transforming primary care and achieving a high-performing healthcare system that serves all Americans and advances health equity, according to an Annals of Family Medicine commentary by AHRQ experts. According to AHRQ’s Arlene Bierman, M.D., M.S., Bob McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., and Sebastian Tong, M.D., M.P.H., primary care research is essential to providing crucial evidence to overcome longstanding and widespread challenges to realizing primary care’s full potential. The authors envision a future in which the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, recent influential reports on primary care, and research by a new generation of primary care researchers will yield a system that is easier to navigate, has coordinated care and is more equitable. Access the abstract.