If you require any support with your scholarship application, please contact the secretariat on +61 (0)2 8204 8770 or by emailing us at [email protected]. The team are available 8:30am – 5:00pm AEDT Monday-Friday and are able to provide support to you.
To be eligible you:
- Are able attend the conference in person from 12 to 14 August 2026 in Walyalup (Fremantle)
- Live in Australasia
- 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
- Have not received a scholarship to attend an ASHM Conference in the last 2 years
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.
Scholarship Inclusions:
- Registration for the conference
- Return Flights to Perth, Australia
- Accommodation for the duration of the conference
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:
- 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.
How to apply:
- 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
