TropNet Travel Medicine Spring School & Annual Meeting

Background

Travel Medicine Spring School (1-2 June)

The Travel Medicine Spring School 2027, organised by the European Network for Tropical Medicine and Travel Health (TropNet) in collaboration with ITM, is addressed to young trainees and healthcare professionals working in the field of travel and tropical medicine, or interested in developing their expertise in this area.

The course aims to improve and deepen knowledge across a broad range of topics in travel medicine, including pre-travel risk assessment and prevention, management of health problems in returned travelers and migrants, emerging infections, extreme and wilderness medicine, and One Health approaches to travel medicine.

 The Spring School will take place in person in Antwerp, Belgium, and will have a strong interactive focus, combining expert-led sessions with practical discussions and challenging clinical cases.

For whom?

• Recent graduates and professionals working in the fields of travel medicine and tropical medicine

• Doctors in training

TropNet Annual Meeting (3-4 June)

The TropNet Annual Meeting brings together clinicians and researchers from across the TropNet network to exchange new knowledge, strengthen collaboration between member centres, and develop joint research and surveillance activities. A key objective is to connect clinical practice with research: participants present recent study results and new multicentre research proposals, discuss challenging clinical cases, and identify areas where collaborative TropNet projects can address important unanswered questions in tropical and travel medicine.

The programme covers a broad and highly practical range of topics in imported infections, travel medicine and migrant health, including malaria, schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis, giardiasis, dengue and other emerging arboviral infections. Interactive clinical case sessions are complemented by discussions on current clinical and policy challenges, such as access to medicines for neglected tropical diseases, vaccine recommendations and changing risks for travellers. The meeting also looks ahead to new approaches in European surveillance, multicentre collaboration and the use of artificial intelligence in tropical and travel medicine.

For whom?

• TropNet members