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Travel and mental health
Presentation NAME
2025 | PATMF-Kairuki University Online Travel Medicine Course
Maureen MacConnell, Psychiatric Nurse
This presentation explores the psychological impacts of travel stress, cultural adjustment, jet lag, isolation, and traumatic events, along with strategies for prevention, early identification, and management. It also address medication considerations, travel insurance coverage, emergency planning, and resources for mental health to support travellers abroad.
Let's talk about mental health - a guide for travellers
Download this series of six illustrated tipsheets for your travellers on fake medications, malaria, mosquito bites, road injuries, traveller's diarrhoea, and vaccinations. The package also includes a tipsheet for clinicians.
Traveller populations
The pregnant traveller & paediactric travellers
Presentation NAME
August 2025
Elizabeth Barnett
This presentation shows how to assess travel-related health risks, provide age-appropriate pre-travel consultations, and recommend vaccinations and preventive measures tailored to children. It covers the management of common travel-related illnesses in children, considerations for those with chronic medical conditions, and strategies to ensure safe travel across various global destinations.
Presentation NAME
August 2025
Elizabeth Barnett
This presentation shows how to assess travel-related health risks, provide age-appropriate pre-travel consultations, and recommend vaccinations and preventive measures tailored to children. It covers the management of common travel-related illnesses in children, considerations for those with chronic medical conditions, and strategies to ensure safe travel across various global destinations.
Visiting friends & relatives
Presentation NAME
2025 | PATMF-Kairuki University Online Travel Medicine Course
Dipti Patel MBBS, FRCP, FFOM, FFTM RCPS (Glasgow), LLM, OBE
This presentation addresses the unique risks and needs of travellers visiting friends and relatives (VFRs), including the epidemiology, sociocultural, economic, and behavioural factors that influence their health-seeking practices.
VFR illustrated series for travellers
Download this series of six illustrated tipsheets for your travellers on fake medications, malaria, mosquito bites, road injuries, traveller's diarrhoea, and vaccinations. The package also includes a tipsheet for clinicians.
The PATMF acknowledges the Foundation for the Support of International Medical Training, the original author of this series.
Travel itineraries
Wilderness medicine
Presentation NAME
2025 | PATMF-Kairuki University Online Travel Medicine Course
Matshediso Kgamane MD, FAWN
This presentation discusses how to assess risks associated with environmental exposures such as extreme temperatures, altitude, animal and insect encounters, and limited access to medical care. It covers how to support travellers through the prevention and management of injuries, environmental illnesses, and medical emergencies in austere settings.
Mass gatherings
Presentation NAME
2025 | PATMF-Kairuki University Online Travel Medicine Course
Santanu Chatterjee MBBS, DTM&H, FACTM, FFTM ACTM, FISTM, FFTM RCPS (Glasgow)
This presentation discusses the health risks associated with events such as religious pilgrimages, sporting competitions, and festivals, including how to provide guidance on pre-travel preparation, vaccination strategies, and outbreak prevention to safeguard the health of travellers attending mass gatherings.