Developed by ISAC's Immunisations & Vaccines Working Group
The course is geared toward early career healthcare professionals interested in learning more about managing fever in returning travellers. It contains case studies as well as methods of infection prevention including vaccination, vector control and chemoprophylaxis.
Course Aims
With the rapid increase in international travel in recent decades, the possibility of returning travellers bringing back infections has increased substantially. Many infections initially present with fever and it is important for clinicians to be able to differentiate milder conditions from those that could be life-threatening.
This course will help to define travel-related infections and their causes in chapter one, before moving onto discussion of particular infections with case studies in chapter two. Methods of infection prevention including vaccination are discussed in the last chapter.
Learners will receive a certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
Meet the Educators
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Dr E. David G. McIntosh AM is a paediatrician, vaccinologist and infectious disease specialist. He is chair of the ISAC Immunisations and Vaccines Working Group. He is currently supporting MSD Vaccines in the development of vaccines. Previously, he worked on pneumococcal, meningococcal, dengue and other vaccines in Wyeth, Novartis and Takeda. He also worked on the antibiotics tigecycline and piperacillin-tazobactam, and the anti-parasitic agent moxidectin. He has worked in Papua New Guinea, the Northern Territory of Australia, New Zealand, The UK, The Netherlands, Russia and Latin America. |
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Prof. Robert Steffen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, was the Head of the Division of Communicable Diseases in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute and Director of a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Traveller's Health. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor in the Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences Division of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, TX, and Honorary Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM). |
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Prof. Blaise Genton was Co-head of the Department of Research, Innovation and Training and Professor of Tropical and Travel Medicine at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He previously worked as a clinical epidemiologist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Basel, Switzerland. |
