The Asia Pacific Travel Health Society (APTHS) is a regional network of travel medicine practitioners that promotes and protects the health of travelers by advancing travel medicine and related disciplines in the Asia Pacific region.

 

The main activities of the APTHS are the biennial conferences, and promotion of travel medicine in the region, including courses and meetings.

Following three successful Asia-Pacific travel medicine conferences, the society was formed in 2000 in Bali.  In response to the growing regional interest in travel medicine, conferences continue to be held every two years in various locations in the Asia-Pacific region.

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MISSION STATEMENT

The APTHS is committed to the promotion of healthy and safe travel. We work closely with the International Society of Travel Medicine and many national travel medicine societies in the Asia Pacific region to promote and advocate travel health.  

 

Our areas of expertise include:

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• Tropical medicine​

• Vaccinology

• Infectious diseases

• Emerging infections, outbreak investigations and response

• Tropical Medicine

• Military, refugee and migration medicine

• Medical tourism

• Evacuation and repatriation of travellers

• High altitude

• Public health and epidemiology

• Climate change and environmental medicine

• Women and travel

• Mental health and travel

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We are committed to organizing regional conferences every two years in order to foster travel medicine in the Asia Pacific region.