Primary care is the foundation of health care
Despite facing serious challenges from outdated approaches to reimbursement, care delivery, and medical records, we believe in the power of primary care to keep people healthy and connect them to the full spectrum of care when needed.
As Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, we are committed to fostering a dynamic community to promote and support primary care resilience, equity, and value in order to improve health and well-being.
Together, we can save primary care
Primary care is in crisis, but you can help. Take a survey to let us know what improvements are most meaningful to you. You can share your story as well. Tell us how primary care has impacted your life.
HMS 2023 State of the School Address
“Statistics show that primary care is responsible for approximately half of all medical visits every year, and yet the U.S. devotes something like $0.06 for every dollar that goes to health care. That's half the investment on primary care of other developed countries in the world,” said Dean George Q. Daley as he described the need to reinstate the primacy of primary care.
Initiative to integrate oral health and medicine
Advancing innovative ideas around the integration of oral health and primary care.
Physician diversity is essential for health equity
The Supreme Court recently delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.