外网天堂 and NaTHNaC 8th Joint Travel Health Conference
Travel Health 2025
22 Mar 2025, 09:00 - 15:45
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Travel health is a fast-moving discipline.
Continuing research in the field and the the addition of new vaccines for travel entering the market are adding to the complexity of the travel health consultation.
Join us at this informative one-day conference to discover the latest research and evidence from the fields of travel medicine and infectious diseases, to enable best practice.
Have your questions answered by experts and gain access to current evidence-based research and education to stay up to date and re-establish confidence and competence in the travel health consultation.
The event will be hosted on the all-in-one virtual conference platform Zoom Events.
Programme topics include:
• Travelling with children
• Rabies: global risks and preventive measures
• Travelling and cancer – risks and care strategies
• Updated vaccines guidance, research and efficacy
• ‘Hot off the press’ information, reports and resources
• View the full programme
Learning outcomes
By attending this conference, delegates will:
• Develop confidence and strengthen skills in advising UK travellers.
• Discover the latest research and evidence in the field, to enable best practice.
• Get up to date with information on the latest travel-related vaccines.
• Stay abreast of new challenges and resources in travel health.
• Learn about national and international travel health recommendations and requirements for international travel.
Who should attend?
This event is aimed at all healthcare practitioners involved in delivering travel health services to travellers from the UK, including nurses, pharmacists and other allied health care professionals.
What previous attendees have said about the Travel Health Conference:
‘I find this event interesting, educational and informative. All the speakers were excellent.’
‘Having not done a travel consultation for a while, it has given me more confidence to be able to add the little tit bits into a consultation.’
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外网天堂 Members rate |
£80 +VAT |
£96 inc vat |
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Non-Members rate |
£120 +VAT |
£144 inc VAT |
Booking for this event has now closed.
Discounts available (max one per booking)
40% discount - nursing student members (pre-registration only), associate retired 外网天堂 members, HCAs or Aps
25% discount - Accredited 外网天堂 representatives, forum steering committee members or any member that has been elected to undertake an official 外网天堂 role
10% discount - Group discount when three or more delegates book together.
The conference is open to all nurses, student nurses, nursing support workers and allied health professionals working in academic, clinical, and professional settings in the UK and overseas.
Benefits of attending:
- Accrue up to 7 hours of CPD to count towards your revalidation
- Learn about latest developments within professional practice, policy and law
- Hear from eminent keynote speakers on contemporary issues in travel health
- Consider and highlight best practice at national and local level
- Network with travel health nursing professionals from across the UK
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Chair: Dr Vanessa Field
Dr Vanessa Field is Deputy Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) and Consultant in Travel Medicine at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) in London, UK.
She is a member of the travel sub-group of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) PHEIC IHR Polio Committee, and of the Professional Education Committee of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM). She sits on the editorial board of Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Journal of Travel Medicine.
Chair: Sandra Grieve RGN RM BSc (Hons) Dip.Trav.Med. FFTM RCPS(Glasg) FISTM
Sandra is an independent travel health specialist nurse. Her professional interest moved from midwifery to travel medicine in 1991, moving from clinical practice to an educational role in 2006.
Since 2000, Sandra has been an active forum member of the 外网天堂 (外网天堂), holding several offices. She is travel health lead for the 外网天堂 public health forum (PHF), representing the 外网天堂 on travel health related issues nationally and internationally, and presenting a travel health perspective for policy making. She represents the 外网天堂 on the Steering Group and Scientific Committee of the Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine (NECTM), a biennial conference focused on education for travel health practitioners and is a previous Steering Group chair and co-chair.
Sandra is active in several travel medicine bodies. She is a member of the Leadership Council and chair of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Publications Oversight Committee (POC), an ISTM Fellow and a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM), RCPS (Glasg). She has acted as an examiner in travel health Diploma courses in Glasgow and Liverpool.
Sandra remains involved in developing guidance for nurses in travel health services and supports nurses from other countries aiming to develop similar guidance. The competencies are primarily aimed at nurses in the UK but applicable to travel health professionals worldwide. The fourth edition was published in 2023 along with the third edition of female genital mutilation (FGM) guidance for nurses in travel health services. Sandra enjoys sharing best practice through these publications and education and encourages collaboration with nurses around the world to support their practice.
She enjoys writing, and reviewing articles, organising and attending travel health conferences, gathering and disseminating related information and forging links with nurses in travel health practice globally.
Dr Dipti Patel MBBS FRCP FFOM FFTM RCPS (Glasg) LLM OBE
Dr Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and in travel medicine. She is Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), and the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is also an honorary lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester University.
She is a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention, the Travel Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and the WHO International Travel and Health Guideline Development Group.
Dipti is an associate editor for Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New Microbes and New Infections, and co-editor of the ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Previous roles include being a Non-Executive Director at the Health Protection Agency, the Director of Clinical Services at the Medical Advisory Service for Traveller’s Abroad, and Consultant in Occupational Medicine at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Katherine Russell
Katherine Russell is a Consultant Epidemiologist and leads the UKHSA Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (EIZ) team. She trained as a medical doctor before working in microbiology and virology, and then specialising in public health medicine. Before taking up her role in the EIZ team, where she has worked on a range of outbreaks including Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, COVID-19, mpox, and diphtheria, she worked on the surveillance and response to emerging infections and zoonotic diseases in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific islands. Katherine has been the national public health lead for rabies for the past eight years.
Becky Swadling
Becky is an independent Travel Health Specialist Nurse with over 24 years of experience in the field. She completed the Diploma in Travel Medicine in 2006 and the Royal College Advanced Certificate in Clinical Education in November 2023. She is a fellow of the BGTHA, was Editor of the BGTHA Journal, and Module Lead on the Post Graduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (RCSPG). She has extensive experience of working in and managing busy private travel clinics. She currently works to support Boots Travel Service, reviews and writes PGDs for Nomad/MASTA clinics and is a member of the Takeda expert steering committee (Dengue Coalition). She regularly develops and delivers Travel Health training to health professionals. She also continues to travel as often as possible with her two daughters.
Carsten Schade Larsen MD, DMSc, DTMH, FFTM RCPS, CTHTM
Senior Consultant and Associated Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Medical Director, European LifeCare Group in Denmark
Carsten Schade Larsen is an infectious disease specialist and since 2004 he has been employed as a senior consultant and associate professor at Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, working in the field of HIV, primary immunodeficiencies, parasitic and imported infections.
He has a special interest in travel medicine and vaccines and is site-director for GeoSentinel Center Aarhus, fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicin (ISTM), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG), Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM) and chair of the Danish Society of Travel Medicine. He has arranged numerous courses in travel medicine and travelled to sixty countries in the world. Since 2019 he has been medical director for European LifeCare Group, who has around 47 vaccine clinics in Denmark.
His has authored over 200 papers and several book chapters in the field of infectious diseases, HIV, primary immunodeficiencies, vaccines and travel medicine.
Dr Miruna Canagaratnam
Dr Miruna Canagaratnam is a Medical Assessor for the UK Civil Aviation Authority. GP-trained by background, she has worked in Aviation Medicine for 14 years. Her passion for Aviation and Space Medicine was sparked by study of the physiology of extreme environments during her undergraduate degree. She completed the Diploma in Aviation Medicine in 2015 and has worked as both an Aviation Medical Examiner and an Occupational Health Physician advising major UK airlines on the medical issues of crew. Currently she has a portfolio career at the CAA, split between medical regulation, policy work and advising on passenger fitness to fly within the dedicated Aviation Health Unit.
Jessica Lim
Miss Jessica Lim is a final-year Surgical Gynae-Oncology Subspecialty Trainee at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Her expertise lies in the surgical management of gynaecological cancers, with a particular interest in ovarian cancer. Her PhD focused on the genomics of ovarian cancer, reflecting her commitment to advancing research in this field.
Passionate about surgical innovation, Miss Lim has dedicated a significant part of her training to robotic surgery and has conducted research on the use of AI in gynaecological cancer diagnosis. She is also actively involved in surgical training and cancer awareness initiatives through CRUK and her local trust. She works closely with allied health specialists, particularly clinical nurse specialists, in developing trust guidelines for Gynae-Oncology, ensuring high standards of patient care.
Dr Natalie Prevatt
Natalie is a Consultant paediatrician in London specially trained in Tropical and Travel Medicine. She runs an NHS travel clinic for children with complex health issues such as immune deficiency and allergies. She sees other patients in her private remote telephone based clinic where parents of well children are mostly concerned about using antimalarials and vaccines off licence.
She is on the RCPCH International Child health board and chairs the Paediatric panel of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM).
Our virtual venue
This event is hosted on Zoom Events, the all-in-one virtual conference platform that enables attendees to connect, learn and interact live with people anywhere.
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