Travel Medicine Clinical Guidelines Australia and New Zealand
Purpose of Information
The Travel Medicine Clinical Guidelines Australia and New Zealand have been created to provide guidance to health care providers on preparing travellers medically for international travel. It is designed as a travel medicine resource for healthcare professionals, including travel health practitioners, general practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. The guidelines will be produced in a phased manner. The range of topics covered will be expanded over time.
Each section will be developed as a one-stop repository for travel medicine information, which will be readily available for general practitioners and travel health practitioners as a reference to provide guidance to assist with travel medicine consultations. The aim is to facilitate the provision of comprehensive information to travel medicine practitioners advising Australian and New Zealand travellers.
Additionally, you will find relevant links and printable resources available as supplementary information to the guidelines.
These guidelines have been developed and endorsed by the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM) and supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Sanofi ANZ.
Developed and Endorsed by
Supported by
RABIES GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
MALARIA GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
COVID-19 INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
PRE-TRAVEL CONSULTATION
What you and your patients need to know.
FOOD AND WATER
What you and your patients need to know.
ARTHROPOD BORNE DISEASES
What you and your patients need to know.
OTHER TRAVEL MEDICINE GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL GUIDELINES
What you and your patients need to know.
Chair Travel Medicine Guidelines
Dr Jennifer Sisson
Chief Medical Officer Travel Doctor – TMVC
Dr Jennifer Sisson is the CMO of Travel Doctor TMVC. After originally training in General Practice, she started working in Travel Medicine in 1997 and since 2005 has worked predominantly in the areas of Travel, Occupational and Tropical Medicine. Jennifer obtained a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with distinction, from James Cook University. She is Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM). Jennifer is currently the Dean and a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (ACTM) and Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. She belongs to the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and ANZSOM. Currently, Jennifer is Chair of the ISTM Travel for Work Interest Group and chair of the Committee producing these guidelines.
Jennifer has worked extensively in the area of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, both within the company and for the WA Department of Health. Education is one of her main passions and she spends significant time educating staff within the company and lecturing at conferences and on line within Australia and overseas.
Contributors:
The following have provided support and time to assist in producing the guidelines. A number of the below have worked in subcommittees with the writer and chair to produce the guidelines. Others have reviewed guidelines.
- Mrs Catherine Keil NP, Travel Health Practitioner, Nuriootpa
- Mrs Ruth Anderson RN (ret Travelvax)
- Professor Marc Shaw, Worldwise, NZ
- Mrs Caroline Nash, RN, Aspen
- Mrs Vicki Lee, RN, Travelvax, Sonic Health Plus
- Dr Deborah Mills, Dr Deb The Travel Doctor, Brisbane
- Professor Colleen Lau, Epidemiologist UQ.
- Dr Sarah McGuinness, ID physician, Alfred and Monash Victoria
- Mrs Trish Smith, RN (ret)
- Assoc Professor Luis Furuya Kanamori, Epidemiologist UQ.
- Professor Richard Franklin, JCU
- Dr Sarah Chu, GP Brisbane
Writers:
Lead Writer – COVID-19, Pre-Travel, Rabies, Food and Water and review of all guidelines except malaria.
Dr Frances Daily
Dr Frances Daily is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and has been interested in travel and tropical medicine since doing a medical elective in Thailand in 1988. Since then she has lived and worked in Australia, South East Asia and West Africa working as a GP in rural and remote areas, with indigenous Australians, refugees, internally displaced and other vulnerable groups. She has also worked extensively in public health, infectious diseases (including TB, HIV, malaria, melioidosis, AMR/AMS), infection control and maternal and child health. She has written numerous clinical guidelines and is passionate about teaching and mentoring doctors, medical students and other health staff.
Frances has been involved in producing and updating the following guidance documents:
- COVID-19
- Rabies
- Educate and prepare travellers against illnesses and diseases from food and water
- Pre-Travel Guidelines
- Review Japanese Encephalitis 2025
Malaria:
Dr Sarah McGuinness and Professor Colleen Lau
Japanese Encephalitis:
Edith Torricke, RN.