Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Scholarships
Scholarship Application Deadline: 9 February 2025
To be eligible you:
- Must be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker/Practitioner
- Be living and working in Australia
- Are able attend the conference in person from 6 to 8 August 2025 in Naarm (Melbourne)
Priority will be given to those who:
- Do not have access to other sources of funding to attend the conference.
- Have not been to the conference before.
Community and Lived Experience Scholarships
Scholarship Application Deadline: 9 February 2025
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To be eligible you:
- Are able attend the conference in person from 6 to 8 August 2025 in Naarm (Melbourne)
- Live in Australia
- Have lived experience of hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C and/or be from an affected community or priority population and/or as a volunteer or peer of a non-government community hepatitis and/or peer based organisation
Priority will be given to those who:
- Do not have access to other sources of funding to attend the conference.
- Have not been to the conference before.
Optional:
Scholarship awardees will be encouraged to ‘buddy’ with community representatives
Scholarship awardees will be invited to a ‘meet and greet’ with other community representatives
How to apply:
- Download the scholarship application guidelines and familiarise yourself with the eligibility criteria and application questions. The questions and selection criteria can also be found at the bottom of this page.
- Use the Submit Application Button to complete your online scholarship application.
Questions (response maximum 200 words for each question – must be submitted via the online application)
- Describe what viral hepatitis (hepatitis B or hepatitis C) means to you? This could be about your volunteering or work in the sector, your personal interest.
- Think about a community that you are a part of or working with, discuss one barrier that people affected by viral hepatitis face, this could be barrier to health care or other aspects of life?
- What do you hope to learn at the conference?
- Provide a brief outline, including examples, of how you will transfer the knowledge you learn at the conference to your community?
- Confirm that you will share a reflection after the conference. This can be a written piece or a video/audio recording.
- Advise if you are affiliated with an community hepatitis organisation and/or peer based organisation
Terms and Conditions:
- All applicants must provide accurate information and advise ASHM if their situation changes. Withholding or giving false information may result in the withdrawal of the application.
- All scholarship holders will be expected to share a personal reflection of the conference with ASHM within 1 month from the conclusion of the conference.
- Applications will be reviewed by a panel that includes community representatives.
- No extensions for applications will be provided
- Panel decisions are final
We acknowledge that the conference is being held on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.