Presented at a rural health care research forum held in conjunction with the American Medical Association's annual Conference on Rural Health (March 1975), the papers in this publication reflect the forum's focus upon assessment of recent research relative to rural health care delivery and the need for researcher communication and interchange. A participant roster is presented and identifies forum participants as including researchers and administrators from the departments of agricultural economics and rural sociology in the colleges of agriculture, departments of community medicine and family practice in the colleges of medicine, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research and action agencies, and private firms doing rural health care delivery research, as well as practicing rural and other physicians. The three papers presented in this publication are written by representatives from colleges of agriculture and medicine and the USDA and are titled as follows: (1) "Assessment of Current and Recent Research on Rural Health Care Delivery by Colleges of Agriculture"; (2) "Rural Health Care Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges"; (3) "Assessment of Knowledge of Rural Health: Knowledge Needs and Methods". (JC)