pre-travel prep and trhip
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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 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (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
