GO8311: 2026 NHMRC-Swiss National Science Foundation

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.

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC Administering Institutions.

The Australia-based Chief Investigator A (CIA) must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or have an appropriate work visa in place at time of accepting a grant, and must be based in Australia for at least 80% of the funding period.

The maximum number of Chief Investigators on an application is 10.

There is no restriction on who may be named as an Associate Investigator, but a maximum of 10 AIs may be named.

Chief Investigators (CIA–CIJ) can submit a maximum of one 2026 NHMRC-SNSF application.

Applications must be consistent with the information provided to SNSF (the Australia-based CIA must be listed on the SNSF JRP proposal as Applicant and selected as the contact person in Australia; the Swiss-based applicant must be listed as CIB in the NHMRC application).

Administering Institutions and CIs must ensure compliance with all eligibility requirements in the guidelines; applications failing eligibility requirements may be excluded.