AIM-AHEAD PAIR Phase 1 — Institutional AI Readiness Grant
Funds institutional readiness in under-resourced hospitals, tribal colleges, and community centers to launch AI health research.
The AIM-AHEAD Program for Artificial Intelligence Readiness (PAIR) is a flagship North Star IV initiative under NIH's AIM-AHEAD consortium — the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, launched by NIH in July 2021. PAIR operates as a two-phase capacity-building program specifically designed to help institutions with limited AI/ML infra…
Institutional AI/ML readiness: establishing AI/ML Health Research Lab, grant-writing support, and network connection for limited-resource healthcare institutions.
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