2026 NHMRC-Swiss National Science Foundation

Overview

The 2026 NHMRC-Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant opportunity supports Australian participation in an international collaboration with Switzerland through the Australian - Swiss Joint Research Programme Call for Proposals 2026.  NHMRC is working with SNSF to support Joint Research Projects to promote collaborative projects with clearly defined goals, involving at least one partner based in Switzerland and one based in Australia. The research field for this collaboration is: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare for populations of diverse sex, gender or sexual orientations or other underrepresented population groups.  Applicants are required to justify how their target population is considered underrepresented in the context of this funding opportunity. Possible topics include but are not limited to: • AI for medical decision support for diagnosis and treatment planning, with a focus of underrepresented population groups • Addressing bias in medical training data • Enhancing trust and trustworthiness in AI-based decision support • Interpretability of AI applications in gender medicine The following topics are excluded: • Theoretical AI approaches that do not tackle any relevant problem of gender medicine or for underrepresented population groups • AI not including any underrepresented population groups or data bias • Studies focusing on underrepresented population groups that are only relevant in Australia or Switzerland. Further information about the SNSF is available from the SNSF website.