SPOTLIGHT: Travelers' Health

This page features products and resources to assist the public health community to understand more about the practice travel medicine. Infectious diseases that commonly pose a risk to international travelers, including malaria and dengue fever are also highlighted.

Travelers’ Health Learning Products

CDC Commentary: The Pre-Travel Consultation — What Providers Should Know

• Information on the three phases of pre-travel consultation

CDC Commentary: Clues to Diagnosis in the Patient With Posttravel Illness

• Provides suggestions on how to better collect data in order to diagnose illnesses in patients who have recently traveled

Malaria 101 for the Health Care Provider

• Designed to teach clinicians about the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of malaria. It includes a discussion of the prevention of malaria in travelers

Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Basics: Case Illustrations of the 2010 ACIP Guidelines

• Provides case Illustrations of the 2010 ACIP Guidelines for PEP

Supercourse Travel Medicine (University of Pittsburgh)

• Covers specific topics useful to the travel medicine practitioner including the pre and post travel consultation, risk assessment, and high-risk travelers

Yellow Fever Vaccine: Information for Health Care Professionals Advising Travelers

• Provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the history and epidemiology of yellow fever, vaccine recommendations, the pre-travel consultation, and how to become a designated yellow fever vaccination provider

Travelers’ Health Resources

Valuable training and learning resources on the Spotlight topic, intended for the public health community.

• The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
  • Public Education Resources
  • Recommended Books
• CDC
  • Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): comprehensive and vaccine specific recommendations
  • DengueMap
  • Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (“The Pink Book”)
  • Global Health
  • Laboratory Identification of Parasites of Public Health Concern (DPDx)
  • Malaria
  • Travelers’ Health
    • News and Announcements
    • Destinations
    • Health Information for International Travel 2012 (Yellow Book)
    • Immigrants Returning Home to Visit Friends and Relatives (VFRs)
  • Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)/Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
  • Influenza Prevention: Information for Travelers
• Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)
• International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM): Expert Opinions in Travel Medicine
• Pan American Health Organization: Epidemiological Alerts
• The Practice of Travel Medicine: Guidelines by the Infectious Disease Society of America
• United States Department of State
  • Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)
  • Travel Warnings
  • Travel Alerts
• University of Minnesota, Global Health Open Access Lecture Library
• The University of Texas at Austin, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• World Health Organization
  • International Health Regulations (2005)
  • International travel and health 2012
  • Global Alert and Response

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Information regarding training products and resources featured in the Spotlight was provided by

• TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN), a free service of the Public Health Foundation
• National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)