Reply To: Last question for the course: post here!

I didn’t know about GPP specifically as laid out by the UNAIDS and AVAC document before enrolling in this course but I was certainly aware about many its components that are generally promoted as part of ethical and good practices when conducting research. Coming from a funder’s perspective, I’ve now thought more about the role we can play in requiring our applicants and grantees to think more about how applying GPP can improve their studies in a more systematized way and how we as a funder can help ensure it actually happens and actively support and participate in the process as well. We don’t typically fund large trials but we do fund pilot interventions and while not all aspects of GPP are clearly applicable, I’m more curious about the community engagement component than I was before and how my organization can become more educated on the role of these stakeholders in the work we fund.