A novel methodological approach to participant engagement and policy relevance for community-based primary medical care research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by Australian National University Human Research Ethics Committee (2020/273) and the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee (024659). Implied consent was detailed in participant coversheet, stating that submission of the survey implied consent for use of de-identified data for publication. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare they have no competing interests."

"Funding Survey work of the Green Center was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Morris-Singer Foundation and the Samueli Foundation. The New Zealand arm received funding from an MBIE COVID-19 Innovation Acceleration Grant, and no funding was received for the Australian or Canadian arms. No funder had any role in data collection, analysis or interpretation."