Policy development and education committee

The TropNet Policy Development and Education committee coordinates the work concerning travel health policy questions and educational activities in the network. In particular, it

• Develops policies to be endorsed by the network on relevant issues related to TropNet mandate
• Actively proposes policies for adoption by national or regional bodies (such as, but not limited to, on malaria prophylaxis, travel vaccines, screening policies)
• Prepares drafts for TropNet statements on relevant issues (such as, but not limited to, drug availability, diagnosis and treatment protocols)

Members of Policy development and Education Committee

Activities

First TropNet Travel Medicine Spring School. Find more info on –> News and events page

Publications

Andrea Farnham, Christoph Hatz, Jan Fehr, Vasiliki Baroutsou, Milo A Puhan, Olivia Veit, Silja Bühler, Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 3, April 2025, taae141,
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae141

Sarah L McGuinness, Olivia Veit, Martin Angelin, Pietro Antonini, Gerhard Boecken, Margarita Boering, Silja Bühler, Guido Calleri, Gilles Éperon, Gerard Flaherty, Céline Gossner, Helena H Askling, Ville Holmberg, Esther Kuenzli, Pierre Landry, Eva Lefevre, Michael Libman, Nicky Longley, Ula Maniewski-Kelner, Andreas Neumayr, Christophe Rapp, Alison D Ridpath, Natalia Rodriguez-Valero, Anja Rosdahl, Deike Rosenbusch, Andrea Rossanese, Camilla Rothe, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Patrick Soentjens, Cornelia Staehelin, Jenny Visser, Leo Visser, Angelika Wagner, Allison Walker, Ursula Wiedermann, Agnieszka Wroczynska, Christoph Hatz, Streamlining malaria prevention recommendations for travellers: current and future approaches, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 31, Issue 8, December 2024, taae113
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae113

Olivia Veit, Ula Maniewski-Kelner, Camilla Rothe, Gilles Eperon, Margarita Boering, Sami Alcedo, Gerhard Boecken, Michael Ramharter, Noud Schel, Patrick Soentjens, Cornelia Staehelin, Michele van Vugt, Thomas Weitzel, Leo G Visser, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Christoph Hatz, Andreas Neumayr, for the malaria working groups (listed at the end), Methodology of the joint malaria prevention recommendations of Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 31, Issue 8, December 2024, taae129.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae129