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

The Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) program is an interagency collaboration between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program supports the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze and interpret data from individuals, devices and systems to enable discovery and optimize health. The work funded by this solicitation must make fundamental scientific or engineering contributions to two or more disciplines, such as computer or information sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, statistics, social, behavioral, or cognitive sciences to improve fundamental understanding of human biological, biomedical, public health and/or health-related processes and address a key health problem. 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 expected to include students and postdocs, and collaborations with researchers in health application domains are required. A Collaboration Plan is required for all proposals. Traditional disease-centric medical, clinical, pharmacological, biological or physiological studies are outside the scope of this solicitation.