2025 GLOWS Scholarships

The Lowitja Institute is Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. For over 20 years the Institute has overseen research covering all areas that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including the social and cultural determinants of health and wellbeing.

The Institute is committed to pursuing a new generation of solutions that make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We will do this by continuing to work with our Lowitja Institute network to invest and support:   

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander priorities and collective ways of working;   
• Knowledge creation (research) and translation that benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples first and foremost;   
• Work that recognises the strength and agency of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; and  
• Work that is culturally, ethically and intellectually rigorous.  

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.  

In partnership with Gilead Sciences, 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.  

The GLOWS Grant Program offers two scholarship streams: 

1. GLOWS Scholarships   

The aim of GLOWS Scholarship funding is to offer supplementary financial support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate, and postgraduate students who are 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 which would support their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce.     

Scholarship Value

The GLOWS Scholarship value is up to $25,000.

2. GLOWS MAE Scholarship  

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) or a Masters of Epidemiology. 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 workforce.

Scholarship Value

The GLOWS MAE Scholarship value is up to $55,000.

Eligibility Criteria 

1. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student.
2. Enrolled full-time as a domestic student in an eligible course.
3. Applicant has commenced studies or can commence studies in the next study semester.
4. Applicant has not previously been awarded a GLOWS Scholarship or GLOWS MAE Scholarship.
5. Ability to demonstrate how area of study is related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing and aligns with the GLOWS program objective.
6. Ability to demonstrate enrolled university supports the application for a GLOWS Scholarship and the universities Scholarship Team, or appropriate delegate, agrees to administer the GLOWS Scholarship.

Before starting your application, please ensure that you have read and understood the following documents:

• GLOWS MAE Scholarship Conditions of Award 2025
• GLOWS Scholarships Conditions of Award 2025
• GLOWS Scholarship Guidelines 2025