History of the GGP

Established during the 1995-96 academic year through the efforts of the NAPCRG Committee on Building Research Capacity (BRC), the GGP seeks to equip primary care researchers with the skills they need to successfully develop and submit grants for research funding. Once learned, these skills are expected to continue to help generate new funds for primary care research and training, year after year. The original concept of the GGP was based on an attempt to replicate several elements of the grant generating process developed and used in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where faculty have successfully obtained several major research grants. The objective of GGP was to “assist experienced researchers to write their first successful major grant application."