AHPA (WA Branch) Healthway
Health Promotion Scholarships
Congratulations Kirsty Mullane, Samantha Elliott, Jade Ashwell, Charlene Carlisle, Isabelle Falantin and Laura Thum
Want to kick start your career in health promotion?
The scholarships have been successfully administered by AHPA (WA Branch) since 1993, with a total of 79 graduates and 40 Aboriginal people having completed placements in a vast range of health related organisations in the government and not-for-profit sector.
Health agencies and organisations are encouraged to consider the prospect of hosting an applicant. Applicants must be supervised by a practitioner with seven years health promotion experience. The project can form part of an existing program within an organisation or may be a new initiative where planning has been undertaken. Each scholarship offered is for a twelve-month full-time health promotion work placement (part-time options can be negotiated).
Hear from past recipients on their scholarship experiences
Tyara Aung, 2023 Regional Scholarship Recipient
Eliza Lock, 2023 Graduate Scholarship Recipient
Celebrating 21 Years
In 2013, AHPA (WA Branch) and Healthway celebrated 21 years of providing scholarships to the Western Australian community. As part of this celebration a retrospective booklet was developed that showcased the recipients and projects that have been funded over this time.
Download our 21 Years of Scholarships Booklet
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2025/26 Scholarships Program
The Australian Health Promotion Association (WA Branch) is now taking applications for the 2025/26 Scholarships Program. The Scholarships Program is funded by Healthway and offers four twelve-month workplace scholarships starting from January 2025.
Getting started
Please read the eligibility criteria, recipient and agency responsibilities, and processes outlined in the 2025-26 Handbook, the 2025-26 Project Proposal and the 2025-26 Application Form.
Get in contact with the Scholarships Coordinator, Corie, on scholarshipswa@healthpromotion.org.au to discuss project ideas and eligibility.
Applicants must meet ONE of the following requirements:
– Undergraduate or postgraduate student in the in the final semester of a health promotion degree (or relevant course with sufficient health promotion content based on the International Union for Health Promotion and Education competencies) OR Completed a tertiary qualification in health promotion (or relevant course with sufficient health promotion content based on the International Union for Health Promotion and Education competencies) at a Western Australian university within the past 12 months; OR
– Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person wishing to progress into a career in health promotion who either has work or volunteer experience and/or TAFE/University qualifications in Aboriginal health, nursing, youth work, teaching or other related fields.
For all enquiries, please contact the Scholarships Coordinator at scholarshipswa@healthpromotion.org.au
Applications extended – 22nd November 2024
CONTACT
the AHPA (WA Branch) Scholarships Coordinator
Wondering if you are eligible for a Health Promotion Scholarship? Or if your project is suitable?
Do you need help finding a host agency? Or an eager graduate/Aboriginal applicant to develop a project with?
Contact Corie, Scholarships Coordinator with any queries on scholarshipswa@healthpromotion.org.au
NEWS
media and dissemination
Congratulations 2024 Scholarship Recipients
2024 recipients Kirsty Mullane and Samantha Elliott have commenced their scholarships.
Congratulations 2023 Scholarship Recipients
2023 recipients Tyara Aung, Tiffany King and Eliza Lock have all completed their scholarships.
Congratulations to 2022 Scholarship Recipients
2022 recipients Emily Munro, Rachel Radcliffe and Zoe Allnutt have all completed their scholarships. To read more about their projects please click on the link on their names.
Health Promotion Short Course for Aboriginal Health Practitioners – Rescheduled
AHPA (WA Branch) and Curtin University will again host a Health Promotion Short Course for Aboriginal Health Practitioners (HPSC4AHP) from Monday 27 November – Friday 2 December 2022. This course is offered for FREE for eligible participants, with thanks to generous funding from Healthway and the AHPA (WA Branch). Please view the HPSC4AHP Flyer Nov Dec 2022 for more information and submit your expression of interest using the expression of interest form by Friday 11 November 2022.
Healthway 30th Anniversary
The AHPA Scholarships program has been proudly funded by Healthway since 1993. If you are interested to find out where a scholarship can take you, please watch this short video interview with Melissa Ledger from Cancer Council WA, speaking about her experiences as an AHPA Graduate Scholarship Recipient in 1999, as part of Healthway’s 30-year anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BhjcqxlHIE
February 2020
Congratulations to 2020 Recipients: Stephanie Maher, Alisha Davis, Travis Talbott and Rachael Laing.
September 2019
AHPA (WA Branch) and Curtin University will again host an Aboriginal Health Promotion Short Course from Monday 2 – Thursday 5 December 2019. This course is offered for FREE for eligible participants, with thanks to generous funding from Healthway and the AHPA (WA Branch). Please view the AHPSC 2019 Flyer for more information and submit your expression of interest using the 2019 AHPSC EOI template by Friday 1 November.
February 2019
Congratulations to the 2019 recipients Larissa Perry, Courtney King, Luke Ringin and Sophie van Dam.
July 2018
Congratulations to the 30 people who travelled from near and far to complete the AHPA (WA Branch) Aboriginal Health Promotion Short Course at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies this week!
May 2018
We are very excited to announce that AHPA (WA Branch) and Curtin University will host an Aboriginal Health Promotion Short Course funded by Healthway from Monday 23 -Friday 27 July 2018. Please view the 2018 AHPSC Flyer and submit your expression of interest using the 2018 AHPSC EOI template by Friday 6th July.
March 2018
Tonight we congratulated the scholarship recipients who completed their scholarships during 2017 at the AHPA (WA Branch) general meeting. Well done to emerging Health Promotion leaders; Alicia King, Kim Carpenter, Ashleigh Parnell, Corie Gray and Catherine Bolton.
February 2018
The article ‘Twenty years of capacity building and partnership: A case study of a health promotion scholarship program’ has been published in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
February 2018
We are very pleased to announce the 2018 Scholarship Recipients:
Aboriginal recipient: Suzanne Clews (Child and Adolescent Community Health)
Graduate recipient: Melissa Evans (CERIPH)
Graudate recipient: Shea Hatch (Heart Foundation WA)
Regional recipient: Tori Jamieson (Kimberley Population Health Unit)
January 2018
The Preliminary Report for 2017 scholarship recipient Corie Gray’s project ‘Barriers to HIV testing among people born in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia’ was released on 1 Dec 2017 (World AIDS Day) on the SiREN website.
