pre-travel prep and trhip

Development and Usage of Internet Tools to Improve Travelers’ Health:

Pre-travel PREP and TRhIP

ET Ryan on behalf of GTEN Global TravEpiNet

US CDC-sponsored Pre-Travel Health Program (U01CK000175)

Global TravEpinet (GTEN)

• Founded in 2009

• TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS

(1) Consortium and repository (US); Characterize current pre-travel care to identify gaps, focus areas, and intervention areas (as of 05/05/2015: 71,053 records in repository)

(2) VFR Initiatives (web tools, outreach, promotion)

Goals

• Goal #1: Get travelers, especially VFRs, in to seek care prior to travel

• Goal #2: Support non-expert providers in delivering UTD care

• Travelers free web health tool

TRhIP

http://gten.travel/trhip/

Provider free web tool

PREP

• http://gten.travel/prep/

GTEN.travel

• TRhIP (Travelers Rapid Health Information Portal)

• GTEN.travel/trhip

• For travelers

• Available on desk tops, laptops, minis, and personal devices

• Available in multiple languages

• French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Creole (Haitian), Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic

• Input and output

Haitian Creole

• New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DoHMH)

• E-kiosks

• Community-based Travel Health Ambassador Initiative

• Starting with VFR travel agents in Bronx

For Providers

• PREP tool (Pre-travel Rapid Evaluation Portal)

• GTEN.travel/prep

• For Providers

• Increasing provider awareness

• NYC DoHMH visiting PCP clinics

• ACP Primary Care Email Distribution

• Monthly e-Newsletter (Updates, links, tools)

Next steps

• We would like to share deploy these tools: • They are free and are kept UTD with CDC

recommendations; pedi, etc. • Primary care teams? • Intra-net resources/toolkits • NYC DoHMH, BLMC-NYC, MGH-BWH-Boston • Other etryan@mgh.harvard.edu rclarocque@mgh.harvard.edu globaltravepinet@partners.org (Just search GTEN.travel)

Acknowledgments

Participating Sites

Northwestern University

Jenny Lee

Revere HealthCare Center

Roger Pasinski, Amy Wheeler

Salt Lake Valley Health Department

Dagmar Vitek, Holly Birich

St. Luke’s – Roosevelt

John Cahill

St. Vincent Hospital

George Abraham

St. Vincent’s First Care

Jenn Katsolis

Tulane University

Frederique Jacquerioz, Susan McLellan

University of California, Los Angeles

Paul Allyn, Risa Hoffman, Tara Vijayan

University of California, San Diego

Joseph Vinetz

University of California, San Francisco

Brian Schwartz

University of Southern California, LA

Jeff Goad, Edith Mirzaian

University of Minnesota

Patricia Walker, William Stauffer

University of Utah

DeVon Hale, Brian Kendall, Daniel Leung

Participating Sites

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

Stefan Hagmann

Chelsea HealthCare Center

Elisha Atkins

DeKalb County Board of Health

Alawode Oladele, Hanna Demeke

Emory University TravelWell

Phyllis Kozarsky, Roberta Dismukes, Jessica Fairley, Henry Wu, Carols Franco-Paredes

Georgetown University

Jessica Rosen, Laura Coster

Johns Hopkins University

Noreen Hynes

Journey Health

Ronke Dosunmu

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii

Vernon Ansdell, Johnnie Yates

Lehigh Valley Medical Center

Mark Knouse

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

Salvador Alvarez

Mount Auburn Hospital

Lin Chen

New York Center for Travel

& Tropical Medicine

Bradley Connor

OVERSIGHT TEAM CDC Clive Brown Gary Brunette Gary Buckett Margaret Coleman Samantha Dolan Rhett Dunaway Stefanie Erskine Emily Jentes Nancy Gallagher Kenji Hidachi Pauline Han Nomana Khan Kelly Holton Phyllis Kozarsky M.I. Meltzer Mark Sotir Emad Yanni Mass General Edward T. Ryan Regina LaRocque David Schoenfeld Ricky Morse Brett Rautenberg Sara Lammert Bhushan Deshpande Emily Hyle Rochelle Walensky UMass Sowmya Rao BLMC (NYC) Stefan Hagmann NYCDoHMH Ellen Lee Camille Adolphe

Lucretia Jones

Kimberly Valcin

Stacey Wright-Woolcock