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CPD, CONFERENCES, & FURTHER EDUCATION
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CONFERENCES
There are an excellent selection of regular annual travel health and immunisation conferences you can attend, often virtually or in-person (and sometimes with free food, or at least a free pen!!). There are also lots of other events that pop up throughout the year too. I try to go to THEM ALL, I LOVE THEM!!!
Save the date for the RCPSG conferences. The last one was on 9th October 2025 in Glasgow (and virtual) and it's always AWESOME!!!!! See details HERE.
The fabulous BGTHA conference is usually around November time (virtual) - always a great event. And usually a half day over the weekend - handy if you are pushed for time (or money) but still want something awesome to attend. It's very reasonably priced. Non-members cost is £35 and includes one-year BGTHA membership. With that, you would also get access to the journal, Travelwise. Also check out the educational webinars they have been putting on and intend to continue to do so. You might recognise a familiar face on the first one!
Look out for the Joint RCN and NaTHNaC conferences each year. They are VERY good! The last one was in March 2025 and is available to watch if you purchase it.
Valneva travel health events (usually FREE events. On occasion some free wine has been involved too. Register your interest to receive email updates on scheduled events)
NECTM and ISTM conferences are always amazing but only for the truly dedicated as they are often abroad and over four days! Have You Saved the Date for CISTM20?
📅 When: 2-5 May 2027
📍 Where: Bangkok, Thailand
🏨 Venue: Centara Grand at CentralWorld
*Alys's conference TOP TIP!* If you can't attend on the day don't rule it out immediately. I've found that a lot of conferences these days tend to be recorded, especially if virtual (although not all of course). So, it's still worth signing up and watching on demand if you can't make it.
*Always just check first that this IS INDEED an option before booking!
SHORT COURSES OR WEBINARS OF INTEREST
Get EVERY LITTLE BIT of education you can!
Check out NaTHNaC's educational events. Have you been to any of the free webinars? Don't worry - they are all recorded and freely available here! And here.
RCPSG FGM course (free) STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
NaTHNaC training courses
Yellow fever training and further YFV information
Oxford Vaccine Group immunisation events
Short presentation on Lyme disease and ticks
Check out the educational webinars the BGTHA have been putting on and intend to continue to do so. You might recognise a familiar face on the first one!
Recorded (FREE) travel health webinars to help you get up to date (not mine!) from March 2025. Presented by superstars in travel health: George Kassianos and Joanna Lowry. And here's a flu one too!
One that might be useful to recommend to travellers - a free 15 minute CPR course! Could come in useful... but let's hope our travellers never end up in that situation eh?
Valneva have created a fabulous training resource for travel healthers "Neva". Lots of useful modules on there. Free to register - and well worth it!
REALLY interesting webinar from the ISTM: Mass gatherings, Safe gatherings: Addressing challenges in religious events (recorded on Wednesday, 26 March 2025.)...
...and more from WHO’s Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN)- free webinars GALORE!! If you enjoy a webinar this is the place to be!
If you are in need of some deeper vaccine-related updates it might be worth re-visiting the free ELfHC course which has had extensive updates due to the changes on the childhood imms programme. You don't have to do the whole thing - pick the bits you are rusty on!
12 Jan 2026, 12.30pm – 1.45pm, Join UKHSA and NHS England for the Communicating Vaccines webinar focussing on PREGNANCY. Register your interest via Microsoft Forms.
Travel Unravelled podcast from LSHTM
From Jungle to Departure Gate: Complex Yellow Fever Scenarios in Travel Health (ISTM free webinar)
It was on the 10th Dec 2025 and the recording is here
This was a recording of a great conference that I was lucky enough to attend live: Health Misinformation: UNPACKED
3rd Dec Recording of UKHSA MMRV webinar here (helps to understand the 2026 changes)
BIG COURSES OF INTEREST
For the SUPER KEEN!!!
RCPSG Post Grad Diploma in Travel Medicine (I teach on this one as the module one lead)
or the Professional Development Certificate in Travel Medicine
Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine course
JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS
There are some fabulous journals to subscribe to out there. And they are NOT BORING!!! Fancy reading about James Bond's travel health risks as an international spy? You got it. This is the field to be in!
Travel medicine and Infectious Disease (TMAID) journal - why not subscribe? (And THIS, incidentally, is where you will find James Bond's travel health risk assessment!)
Subscribe to Vaccine Update for general monthly-ish vaccine-based news.
BGTHA Journal, Travelwise. If you subscribe to the BGTHA you will notice many articles in their wonderful journal 'Travelwise' by me. I have enjoyed writing bits and bobs for this journal since 2017.
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