Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH)

The Smart Health program is an interagency collaboration between NSF and NIH that supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical and public health research. The program requires convergent, interdisciplinary approaches that draw from multiple domains of computer and information science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Projects must make fundamental scientific or engineering contributions to two or more disciplines to improve fundamental understanding of human biological, biomedical, public health and/or health-related processes and address a key health problem. The research teams must include members with appropriate and demonstrable expertise in the major areas involved in the work. Research themes include fairness and trustworthiness in AI/ML, transformative analytics in biomedical and behavioral research, next generation multimodal and reconfigurable sensing systems, cyber-physical systems, robotics, and biomedical image interpretation. Projects are funded for up to four years at $300,000 per year.