The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 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. 

The aim of GLOWS 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.​

Students undertaking study in the following undergraduate and postgraduate programs are eligible to apply:

• Bachelor of Public Health
• Bachelor of Public Health and Public Health Promotion
• Bachelor of Medicine
• Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
• Master of Public Health
• Master of Infectious Diseases Intelligence
• Master of Infectious Diseases
• Master of Epidemiology

Funding: Up to $25,000

GLOWS MAE Scholarships 

The aim of the GLOWS MAE Scholarship is to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake a Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE). 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.​

Students undertaking study in the following postgraduate programs are eligible to apply:

• Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology
• Masters of Epidemiology
• Masters of Science (epidemiology)
• Master of Medicine (Clinical Epidemiology)

Funding:  Up to $55,000

Eligibility Criteria:

To submit your application for a GLOWS Program Scholarship, applicants must meet the following criteria: 

• Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
• Enrolled full time as a domestic student in an eligible course.
• Applicant is eligible for the chosen program and has commenced studies or can commence studies in the next study semester, following award of scholarship.
• Ability to demonstrate how requested area of study is related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing and aligns with the GLOWS program objective, to increase health equity and address disparities that continue to drive the transmission of HIV/viral hepatitis within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Lowitja Institute will not accept applications from the following:

• Individuals and consultants. 
• Non-Aboriginal groups or organisations. 
• For-profit organisations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses.
• Federal and state government agencies and bodies. 
• Public schools or universities. 
• Unincorporated Aboriginal organisations or groups. 
• Organisations that have not met project requirements, including acquittal, and reporting for grant funding received from Aboriginal Affairs NSW in the previous two years, and Auspice organisations.

• Email: glow@lowitja.org.au