The Public Health Association Australia Health Promotion Special Interest Group (PHAA HP SIG) is once again offering a fantastic opportunity to recognise achievements in health promotion. In 2025, they are proud to offer a travel scholarship and several awards to honor outstanding contributions in research and practice.
The scholarship is for the PHAA HP SIG Travel Award, which will provide support to attend the PHAA Preventive Health Conference in 2025. You can read about the experience of last year's awardee here.
Awards available are:
Australian Public Health Conference Travel Award: made to outstanding PHAA members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of health promotion at national, state or community levels.
The Early Career Award (Practice): one award to an outstanding PHAA member who has contributed significantly to the advancement of health promotion practice and who is in the first 10 years of their career (or has been involved in health promotion for more than 10 years but has completed a PhD within the last 5 years).
The Early Career Award (Research): one award to an outstanding PHAA member who has contributed significantly to the advancement of health promotion research and who is in the first 10 years of their career (or has been involved in health promotion for more than 10 years but has completed a PhD within the last 5 years).
The Individual Award for Service (Practice): one award to an outstanding PHAA member who has contributed significantly to the advancement of health promotion practice over a long period of time (minimum 10 years).
The Individual Award for Service (Research): one award to an outstanding PHAA member who has contributed significantly to the advancement of health promotion research over a long period of time (minimum 10 years).
Nominees for each award must provide a:
The closing date for award applications has been extended to 21 February 2025. Winners will then be announced by late March. For more information please refer to the guidelines provided in the nomination forms.
250205 - HP SIG - Conference Travel Award 2025.pdf
250205 - HP SIG - Award for Service (Research) Award 2025.pdf
250205 - HP SIG - Award for Service (Practice) Award 2025.pdf
250205 - HP SIG - Early Career (Practice) Award 2025.pdf
Source: PHAA email 6 February 2025
