CoNHealth will bring together leading researchers with wide-ranging research experience in the context of a collaborative scheme of research exchanges and networking to advance current knowledge in the area of intelligent wireless networks for medical ICT applications. The project is endorsed by 8 institutions including 3 partners from EU countries (UK, Italy, and Finland), 2 partners from industrialized third countries (US and Japan), and 3 partners from an International Cooperation Partner (ICP) country (China). The members of the consortium will provide complementary knowledge and strength in the fields of cognitive radios (UNEW, UFI, UOULU, MIT, YNU, THU, XMU), cognitive radars (UNEW, THU), cognitive sensors (UNEW, UOULU, YNU), privacy and security in healthcare (UFI, MIT), medical sensors and instrumentation (UNEW, SJTU), disease management and diagnosis (UFI, SJTU), biomedical signal processing (UNEW, THU), and medical ICT (all the project partners). These capabilities have been drawn out in accordance with the joint research vision of providing transnational proactive healthcare (TPH), commonly shared by the partners at the moment of writing the proposal.