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A public health medicine physician is concerned with the health and care of populations. They train in both clinical medicine and public health, opening pathways in to:
The Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM) John Snow Scholarship aims to increase the awareness among medical students to help them identify public health medicine as a medical specialty or potential career path.
The AFPHM, as the principal faculty for public health medicine training in Australasia, looks to provide medical students the opportunities for intellectual and social discourse with AFPHM Fellows and trainees.
“A decade has passed since I was awarded the inaugural national John Snow Scholarship in 2009 at the World Congress of Internal Medicine 2010. The Scholarship's reflective process consolidated what I'd learned through the project and, as a medical student approaching internship, my mind was opened to the intrinsic exceptional value of public health."
You must be a medical student currently enrolled in a medical school at an Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand university.
The prize for each selected regional representative includes:
All regional representatives and overall prize winner will receive a certificate in recognition of their achievement.
Applicants must read the terms and conditions before applying.
When applying for the Scholarship, you'll need to provide the following supporting documentation (in a single PDF file):
Applicants must ensure:
Sabrina Yeh | 2018 John Snow Scholarship winner Victoria | Monash University Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns in Two Diverse Paediatric Communities
"The John Snow Scholarship is a fantastic experience for medical students. The opportunity to present your work on a national level and meet like-minded individuals passionate about public health is invaluable. I found the chance to meet public health trainees and hear current work in the public health arena to be inspiring. Receiving the scholarship has allowed an unparalleled insight into public health training and the various pathways one can undertake in the future. The John Snow Scholarship has only furthered my passion in public health and its potential as a future career path.
I strongly encourage all students who have an interest in community driven change and equity to apply. Throughout the conference, the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine were a huge support. They made every effort to engage with the students and made us all feel incredibly included in all Faculty events."
Logan Williams | 2018 finalist Aotearoa New Zealand | University of Auckland The Impacts of Colonisation on the Inequities of Smoking During Pregnancy in Aotearoa
Siddhanth Sharma | 2018 finalist Western Australia | University of Notre Dame Putting feet first: Improving the provision of diabetic foot care at a remote ACCHS
Josephine Davies | 2018 finalist ACT | Australian National University Routine and pulse vaccination for Lassa virus could reduce high levels of endemic disease: a mathematical modelling study
Sebastian Rositano | 2018 finalist South Australia | University of Adelaide The epidemiology of antidepressant use and experiences of bullying or sexual abuse in the South Australian population
Samuel Tan | 2018 finalist Queensland | University of Queensland A Contemporary Meta-Narrative Realist Review of Population-Level Suicide Prevention Strategies
Timothy Bemand | 2018 finalist NSW | University of New South Wales Computed tomography coronary angiography for Indigenous Australians in Rural Australia
Ned Latham | 2017 winner Victoria | Monash University Understanding the acceptability of rapid, point-of-care hepatitis C testing in people who inject drugs
Alexandra Carle | 2017 finalist Western Australia | University of Notre Dame Mycoplasma Genitalium: An important consideration in male urethritis
Rachael McCormick | 2017 finalist ACT | Australian National University ‘It can help our community… I hope the government will listen to what we are saying’: Reasons for caregiver participation in a longitudinal study of indigenous Australian children
Arunan Sriravindrarajah | 2017 finalist NSW | University of Sydney Ending offshore detention of asylum seekers – the role of the medical profession
Dipti Sugumar | 2017 finalist Tasmania | University of Tasmania Influence of social circumstance in childhood, adulthood, and social mobility on adult dietary quality
Alisha Thompson | 2017 finalist South Australia | Flinders University Australians’ understanding of the decline in fertility with increasing age and attitudes towards ovarian reserve screening
Rebecca Kelly | 2016 winner Tasmania | University of Tasmania Prediction of adult blood pressure in childhood: opportunities for early risk assessment
Michael Au | 2016 finalist Queensland | James Cook University An injustice in the justice system - HIV/HCV prevention in Australian incarcerated populations
Matthew Borg | 2016 finalist South Australia | University of Adelaide Renal health outcomes in relation to temperature and heatwaves in Adelaide, South Australia
Matthew Koh | 2016 finalist NSW | University of New South Wales A primary case-based model for assessment and treatment of chronic hepatitis c infection in rural and remote regions of Australia
Joevy Lim | 2016 finalist Aotearoa New Zealand | University of Auckland The Silver Age of HIV
Rosie Viner | 2016 finalist Western Australia | University of Notre Dame An audit of VTE prophylaxis following caesarean section
Hui Ling Yeoh | 2016 finalist Victoria | Monash University The Silver Age of HIV: The public health needs of people ageing with HIV
Su'Ad Muse | 2015 winner Aotearoa New Zealand | University of Otago Whakawhanaungatanga and Antiracist Research Praxis
Olivia Charlton | 2015 finalist NSW | University of Notre Dame Melanoma in the news: A discourse analysis of articles in The Australian newspaper
Carmen Hayward | 2015 finalist South Australia | Flinders University Vitamin D supplementation in reducing the risk of vitamin D insufficiency during infancy
Aleece MacPhail | 2015 finalist Victoria | University of Melbourne Surveillance and epidemiology of blood borne viral hepatitis in Australia: 21 years of the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System
Eliza Nolan | 2015 finalist Tasmania | University of Tasmania Child and family centres & healthcare access - a pilot cohort study
Matilda-Jane Oke | 2015 finalist Western Australia | University of Notre Dame Trachoma mass drug administration and health promotion in the Western Australian goldfields
Shaun Vaughn | 2015 finalist ACT | Australian National University Potential efficiency gains in Australian primary care
Ashish Vaska | 2014 winner South Australia | University of Adelaide Age Determination in Refugee Children: Developing an Evidence-Based Narrative History Tool
Chloe Attree | 2014 finalist Western Australia | University of Notre Dame Acute variceal bleed management: An audit on the proportion of patients who received prophylactic antibiotics for acute variceal haemorrhage in a tertiary Western Australian hospital
Christopher Bailie | 2014 finalist Queensland | University of Queensland Variation in delivery of preventive health care in Indigenous communities: a cross-sectional analysis
Alexander Cochrane | 2014 finalist ACT | Australian National University Enhancing the Immunise Australia Program
Amanda Cohn | 2014 finalist NSW | University of New South Wales "My vagina makes funny noises": Analysing online forums to assess the real sexual health concerns of young people
Sarah Rockefeller | 2014 finalist Victoria | Monash University Sexual violence and women's health: Educating future clinicians
Daniel Vickers | 2014 finalist Northern Territory | Flinders University Perinatal outcomes in Indigenous women with Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Top End
Cecilia Xiao | 2014 finalist Tasmania | University of Tasmania Challenges in implementating telehealth in west coast Tasmania
Frequently asked questions Terms and conditions Hear from past recipients History of John Snow and the Scholarship
John Snow was an English physician who is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of epidemiology and public health. In 1854, when illness was thought to be caused by 'miasma' (bad air), he mapped the geographic location of cases during a cholera outbreak in London and conducted case-control and cohorts studies which identified the Broad Street pump as the source of the illness.
On this basis, he organised for the pump handle to be removed, thus controlling the outbreak - a classic example of a public health intervention. This is commemorated in the AFPHM logo which includes a water pump with no handle.
The John Snow Scholarship was introduced in 2009. Since its introduction the scholarship has recognised the work of medical students with an interest in public health and given them the opportunity for intellectual and social discourse with other like-minded medical students and AFPHM Fellows and trainees at the Royal Australian College of Physicians' Annual Congress.
Read the Putting public health medicine and training 'on the radar': a qualitative evaluation of a medical student public health scholarship report.