Graduate and Undergraduate Public Health Scholarships

The aim of Graduate and Undergraduate Public Health Scholarship funding is to offer supplementary financial support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate and postgraduate students wanting to develop their skills and knowledge on how to increase health equity and address disparities that continue to drive the transmission of HIV/viral hepatitis within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, through studies that would support their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research workforce.​

Number: may vary 
Value: up to $25,000
Covers: course fees and student amenity fees
Duration: one year 

High-Degree Research Scholarship

The aim of the GLOWS Higher-Degree Research Scholarship is to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake a Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) or related degree. The objective of this scholarship is to support an MAE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholar through their studies which would support their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research workforce.​ 

Supports students wanting to develop their skills and knowledge on how to increase health equity and address disparities driving transmission of HIV/viral hepatitis within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Number: may vary 
Value: up to $55,000
Covers: course fees and student amenity fees
Duration: one year 

Apply now

Applications are to be submitted via the Lowitja Institute SmartyGrants portal. Information for applicants including eligibility criteria, scholarship guidelines, and conditions of award are also accessible on this portal.

Applications are open for Round 2 of the GLOWS Scholarship streams until 25 January 2025

About

GLOWS Grant Program 2024-26

The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 2024–26 offers scholarships and research grants to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, community organisations and their partners for work relating to HIV and viral hepatitis over the next three years. 

Lowitja Institute aims to further increase health equity, address disparities that continue to drive disease transmission, and work towards elimination of HIV and viral hepatitis in all of our communities.  

Five different grant types are offered over the course of the program. These include large and medium research grants focused on providing opportunities for research and community programs aimed at addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community needs. The program also includes incubator, seeding or demonstration grants, scholarships and education grants.  

Funding tiers range from $800,000 over two years, to seeding grants and scholarships of $30,000 and $25,000. 

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GLOWS Grant Program is delivered in partnership with Gilead Sciences

For all enquiries, please contact glows@lowitja.org.au

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