Jennifer Rayner is the director of research and policy at the Alliance for Healthier Communities and supports 100+ community based primary care organizations in Ontario. She is an applied health services researcher with interests in primary healthcare, interprofessional teams, health equity and learning health systems. She is a research professor at Western University within the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine and an associate professor at University of Toronto in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation. Jennifer works in collaboration with researchers, evaluators and policy makers to improve care for people with barriers. Her community based primary care experience includes leadership roles in research, policy, planning, performance, accountability and quality improvement. She received her PhD of epidemiology and biostatistics at Western and completed post-doctoral training at Ryerson University.