To submit your YES Fellowship application please work through the questions listed over the following pages. There will be the option to review what you have entered and make updates before submitting.

As part of your submission we ask that you upload a 600-word essay (.pdf) which answers the following 3 questions (~200 words each):

1. Please provide an overview of your current program of study. Consider…What do you like about it? Why did you choose it? How does it link to your career goals?
2. Given the opportunity – what would you like to focus on in a potential HIV research project and why? Consider… key populations, other infectious diseases, and/or sexual health.
3. Why are you interested in the Fellowship and what would you like to achieve from this opportunity?

All applications must be received no later than 23:59 AEST Friday 30 May 2025.

Further information of the Fellowship Program, the application process and what to include in your essay can be found here.

Terms and conditions and Privacy Collection Notice

• Terms and conditions of the Gilead YES Fellowship Program
• Privacy Collection Notice

Thank you for completing your submission for the YES 2025 HIV Fellowship.

As part of your submission we ask that you email a 600-word essay (.pdf) which answers the following 3 questions (~200 words each):

1. Please provide an overview of your current program of study. Consider…What do you like about it? Why did you choose it? How does it link to your career goals?
2. Given the opportunity – what would you like to focus on in a potential HIV research project and why? Consider… key populations, other infectious diseases, and/or sexual health.
3. Why are you interested in the Fellowship and what would you like to achieve from this opportunity?

To send your essay, please email it to gileadrsvp@eventful.com.au along with your full name and phone number in the body of the email so that we can easily locate this as part of your overall YES 2025 HIV Fellowship submission.

Your submission is not finalised until this step has been completed.

All applications must be received no later than 23:59 AEST Friday 30 May 2025. If you require any further information with regards to your submission, please do not hesitate to contact the Gilead Meeting Secretariat.

Kind regards,



Gilead Meeting Secretariat
Toll Free: 1800 898 499 (within Australia)
Telephone: +61 2 9698 8055 (International)
Email: GileadRSVP@eventful.com.au

Fellowship Privacy Collection Statement
Gilead Sciences Pty Ltd (ACN 072 611 708) and Gilead Sciences (NZ) (company number 1476178) (together “Gilead”) complies with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (as applicable), to ensure that your personal information is protected. Gilead handles your personal information in accordance with Gilead's Privacy Policy and by providing it to us, you consent to Gilead using your personal information for the purposes they set out and any additional purposes notified to you by Gilead or agreed to by you.  Gilead uses its authorised third-party service providers, including Eventful Meetings and Events Pty Ltd ACN 159 676 301 (“Eventful”), to facilitate the organisation and running of our events. These service providers may handle your personal information in accordance with their applicable privacy policies for the limited purpose of running our events. In addition, the YES Fellowship Program is run in collaboration with The Peter Doherty Institute on Infection and Immunity, The Kirby Institute, Centre for Social Research in Health and Burnet Institute (the “Institutes”). As part of the reviewing applications for and facilitating the YES Fellowship Program, Gilead will provide your personal information to the Institutes who will handle your personal information in accordance with their applicable privacy policies for the limited purpose of assessing applicants and facilitating the YES Fellowship Program. From time to time, Gilead may also provide you with marketing material about Gilead’s products and services including by email, SMS and telephone call. Gilead may also disclose your personal information to its related bodies corporate/affiliates outside of Australia and New Zealand (a list of the countries in which Gilead has related bodies corporate can be found at www.gilead.com/global-operations), Contract Research Organisations (CROs), regulatory/governmental authorities, third parties with whom Gilead contracts, external ethics and/or governance committees and external auditors, or as otherwise required by law. These parties may be located in the US and other countries outside of Australia and New Zealand, as set out in Gilead's Privacy Policy.   If you have any queries about how Gilead handles your personal information or would like to access or correct your personal information, please write to: Privacy Officer, Gilead Sciences Pty Ltd, Level 28, 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000 or AU.Privacy@gilead.com. Gilead's Privacy Policy contains information on how you may complain about breach of the Privacy Act and how Gilead will deal with such a complaint. If you do not provide your personal information to us, we may be unable to include you or allow your participation in the relevant clinical trial or feasibility assessment.