Travellers' Health

The Travellers’ Health course prepares health professionals and travel industry staff to give relevant health information to travellers and to assess travel-related problems occurring during and after travel, with a special focus on tropical diseases. At the end of the course, participants will be able to provide up-to-date information in travel medicine. This includes preventive pre-travel advice, including immunizations and other aspects during travel, appropriate risk assessment and behaviour during travel and management of travel-related diseases based on individual and epidemiological features. 

This course is supported by WHO, TropNet and the Swiss Society of Tropical and Travel Medicine.

The total course fee is CHF 1200.–.

For students registered as tropEd Master student at a tropEd home institution the course fee is CHF 1000.–. The fee must be paid 4 weeks before the start of the course. This sum includes the registration fee of CHF 100.– which is due at the time of acceptance. If a participant does not attend the course, the registration fee cannot be reimbursed. If cancellation of attendance is less than 4 weeks before beginning of the course an additional fee of CHF 350.– will be charged.