Advancing Health Through Science Smart Health Workshop Student Travel Award

The Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Intelligent Human-Machine System (IHMS) Laboratory at Northeastern University are hosting an Advancing Health Through Science Smart Health Workshop in Alexandria, VA, January 6-7, 2020 to discuss and promote advances in smart health research and to foster partnerships and education for the future of smart health. The SCH Program Directors from the NSF and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are thrilled to have the broader smart health community come together for this year’s meeting – it will be an exciting Smart Health workshop!

NSF is providing funding support to graduate students at advanced levels of engineering and computer and information science to attend the workshop, promoting the mission of developing a new generation of technologies and data analytics for smart health. All students from traditionally underrepresented groups in computing and engineering are eligible. Eligible students include women, minorities (African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders), persons from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and persons with disabilities (https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bpc/). Students currently funded by SCH projects are not eligible to apply through this program.

Application Requirements:

Through the submission site, submit the two following files:

1. One-page NSF-formatted Project Summary describing the proposed or current research. The summary should be written in the third person and include a statement of objectives and the methods to be employed. It must clearly address in separate statements the two National Science Board (NSB)-approved merit review criteria:

• The intellectual merit (i.e., the potential to advance knowledge) of the proposed activity; and

• The broader impacts (i.e., the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes) resulting from the proposed activity.

The summary should be informative to other persons working in the same or related fields. Submissions that do not separately address both merit review criteria within the one-page Project Summary will not be considered.

2. A letter of support from the student’s research advisor explaining why this workshop would enhance their training.

Important Dates:

November 8, 2019: Applications due