Grand Challenges India: Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use to Improve Global Health

Description

1) Objective

The “Grand Challenges India: Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use to Improve Global Health” initiative aims to transform healthcare globally through AI, focusing on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It stresses the importance of locally driven AI solutions to enhance the health and well-being of women, children, and vulnerable communities in these regions. The initiative seeks to ensure safe, equitable, transparent, and reliable AI use, with a high level of accountability. It encourages the collaboration of researchers, scientists, and policymakers to leverage AI’s full potential for sustainable and impactful health improvements.

The purpose of this call is to seek innovative approaches to the use of LLMs to advance health in India and across the globe. Given the numerous open and non-open-source AI tools, we encourage/expect the applicant to select the tool most appropriate to their use case and context.

2) Eligibility

Eligibility for this call for proposals is open to researchers, implementers, governments, and technical partners who have demonstrated capability in solving specific challenges in their countries and regions through Large Language Models (LLMs).

3) Location

Actions must take place in India.

4) Budget

The funding level is a grant of up to USD $100,000 for each project, provided to the organization, with a term of up to 12 months. The project needs to be led by investigators in India. Global partners may be included, but proposals must demonstrate at least 80% of the funding is going to an organization within the Country. Application budgets should be commensurate with the scope of work proposed.

5) Application