Smart and Connected Health PI Meeting Aspiring PI Travel Award

The Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Intelligent Human-Machine System (IHMS) Laboratory at Northeastern University are hosting an Advancing Health Through Science Smart Health PI 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 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!

This meeting will include participants from outside the SCH program. These participants will be selected after review for a call for proposals.  Thus, this workshop will include both current and aspiring NSF and NIH PIs. This will allow PIs to meet new potential collaborators. Additionally, in order to address current concerns in SCH research, such as cybersecurity and privacy, the meeting will include a cross-discipline workshops with the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) research community.

NSF is providing funding support to aspiring PI to attend the workshop, promoting the mission of developing a new generation of technologies and data analytics for smart health. The workshop will address issues of importance to the PIs and aspiring PIs and generate new ideas and areas of research.

Application Requirements

Through the submission site, submit the following file:

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. Your CV in two page NSF biosketch format.

Important Dates

November 15, 2019: Applications due

November 29, 2019: Decision notifications

Workshop Organizing Committee

Chair: Yingzi Lin, Northeastern University

John Lach, University of Virginia

Rob McCray, Wireless –Life Sciences Alliance

Donna Spruijt-Metz, University of Southern California

If you have any questions, please contact us: nsfsch2020@gmail.com