Title of the centre:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health
Director / Head:
Prof. Christoph Hatz
Institution:
Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Communicable Disease
University of Zurich
Address:
Hirschengraben 84
CH -8001
Town:
Zürich
Country:
SWITZERLAND
Region:
EURO
Phone:
+41-(0)44 634 4621
Fax:
+41-(0)44 634 4984
Date of Designation:
06/Sep/1995
Last Redesignation:
25/Jan/2010
Expiry:
25/Jan/2014
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- To undertake epidemiological monitoring / surveillance of travellers' health, particularly relating to
- emerging or remerging diseases,
- environmental factors,
- host factors.
- To undertake studies on prophylactic and curative measures relating to the health of travellers, e.g influenza, malaria, travellers' diarrhoea at the ZURICH and BASEL sites and in destination countries.
- To collaborate particularly within the frame of the International Health Regulations in crises with implications to/by travellers' such as pandemic influenza, tuberculosis, SARS, etc.
- To exchange information generated from surveillance on epidemics relevant to the health of travellers to determine individual and public health measures among international public health institutions and opinion leaders.
- To develop evidence based strategies to maintain travellers' health, among others based on an electronic data-base of 28,000 pre-travel consultations.
- To provide teaching and training in travel medicine and tropical diseases (pre- and post-travel)
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Subjects:
- Tourist health & travel medicine
- Communicable diseases other than those specifically mentioned
- Vaccines
Types of activity:
- Development and application of appropriate technology
- Coordination of activities carried out by several institutions (e.g. other WHO collaborating centres)
- Research
WHO organization wide expected result:
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1.4 - Policy and technical support provided to Member States in order to enhance their capacity to carry out surveillance and monitoring of all communicable diseases of public health importance. |
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1.6 - Support provided to Member States in order to achieve the minimum core capacities required by the International Health Regulations (2005) for the establishment and strengthening of alert and response systems for use in epidemics and other public health emergencies of international concern. |
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Responsible Officer:
POUMEROL Gilles
Phone:
+41 22 79 12921
Technical Counterpart:
HOFMANN Thomas Dieter
Phone:
+45 39171440
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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