i) Update on GeoSentinel ii) Interventions to increase travel health awareness among VFR travellers Associate Professor Karin Leder Director of Travel Medicine and Immigrant Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia Head of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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i) Update on GeoSentinel ii) Interventions to increase travel health
awareness among VFR travellers Associate Professor Karin Leder
Director of Travel Medicine and Immigrant Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Head of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit Monash University, Victoria, Australia
The Global Surveillance Network of the ISTM and CDC
A worldwide communications and data
collection network of travel/tropical medicine
clinics
www.geosentinel.org
Provider-based surveillance of international travelers & migrants
56 travel/tropical medicine clinics, 24 countries, 6 continents
Approx 200,000 patient records (since 1996) >250,000 final diagnoses
Rationale for GeoSentinel
• Travel & migration continue to increase
• Travelers & immigrants = key elements in spread of emerging ID
26% of VFRs managed as inpatients vs 6% of tourists
• Initiative supported by unrestricted educational grant from Sanofi Pasteur
• Communications consultancy firm engaged – Devised ways to encourage pre-travel advice for VFRs – Identified GPs in high VFR communities and alert re need for