Useful sites
A selection of useful sites/resources for travel health professionals
Reference Texts
- British National Formulary
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health Information for International Travel
- World Health Organization. International Travel and Health
Publications
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (CDC Pink Book)
- Eurosurveillance (Weekly and Monthly)
- Immunisation Against Infectious Disease (Green Book)
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Safeguarding children and young people
- WHO Fact Sheets
- WHO Infectious Diseases
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
Websites
UK Government
- Department of Health
- Health in Wales
- Public Health Agency for Northern Ireland
- Public Health England
Surveillance
- Public Health England, Centre for Infections
- Eurosurveillance (Weekly and Monthly)
- Global Surveillance Network (CDC & ISTM)
- Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
- ProMED mail (The ISID Program for Monitoring Emerging Infectious Diseases)
- TropNetEurop – European Network on Imported Infectious Disease Surveillance
- WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR)
- WHO Disease Outbreak News
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
Other
- Care Quality Commission
- Civil Aviation Authority: Assessing Fitness to Fly
- electronic medicines compendium
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- International Association for Medical Assistance for Travellers
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Public Health Agency of Canada: Travel Health
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- South African National Travel Health Network (registration required for some areas)
- TRAVAX (subscription required)
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Travelers Health
- World Health Organization
Professional Associations/Societies
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- British Global and Travel Health Association
- International Society of Travel Medicine
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Faculty of Travel Medicine
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Wilderness Medical Society
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