Lowitja Institute congratulates GLOWS Scholarship and Medium Research Grant recipients

We are excited to announce the first set of recipients of 2024 funding under the (Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing) GLOWS program. This includes five GLOWS Scholarship recipients as well as an organisational recipient of a Medium Research Grant.

GLOWS Scholarships

The GLOWS Scholarship program includes streams that support students wanting to develop their skills and knowledge on how to increase health equity and address disparities driving transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The objective of this funding is to offer supplementary financial support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking studies towards their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research workforce.​

Congratulations to the following recipients of a 2024 GLOWS Scholarship:

Ms Jasmine Armstrong
Bachelor of Biomedical Science, University of Queensland

Mr Charles Fisher
Doctor of Medicine, Western Sydney University

Mr Ethan Jones
Bachelor of Pre-Medicine, Science and Health, University of Wollongong

Mr Aidan Kampers
Master of Public Health, University of Wollongong

Ms Jackie Watson
Master Public Health, specialisation in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, and Master of Health Leadership and Management, University of New South Wales

GLOWS Medium Research Grant

Congratulations to our first recipient of Medium Research Grant funding: Danila Dilba Health Service (DDHS).

The funded project, entitled ‘Improving the hepatitis B cascade of care in the urban Top End of the Northern Territory’, is a partnership between DDHS and Menzies School of Health Research. It is founded on strong First Nations leadership and participation. The overall focus of the project is to decrease viral hepatitis-related mortality in First Nations peoples by implementing national strategies and filling important knowledge gaps that currently impede the implementation of these strategies.

This project will apply a co-designed model of care for people living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) to accelerate access to care. This will be done by reducing barriers to care, increasing the capacity of the First Nations health workforce to provide care in a primary healthcare setting, increasing CHB knowledge for all (thereby decreasing stigma), and increasing participation in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance.

Further GLOWS grant recipients will be announced in the coming months.

Learn more about the GLOWS program

Learn more about Lowitja Institute scholarship opportunities