7th Southern Cross Australasian Travel and Tropical Medicine Conference
27 – 29 September 2024. Venue: Sofitel Brisbane CentralBRISBANE - AUSTRALIA
Theme: Health Beyond Borders; Advancing Travel and Tropical Medicine
Thank You for Joining the 7th Southern Cross Australasian Travel and Tropical Medicine!
As we bring the 2024 conference to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to every attendee, speaker, sponsor, and volunteer who made this event possible. Your energy, insights, and enthusiasm created an inspiring atmosphere throughout the conference.
Over the past 3 days, we explored the sequelae of infectious tropical diseases and looked at surveillance, prevention and control (including vaccination) of tropical diseases; we travelled through disrupted journeys, healthy trips, with children and families and discussed travel-related challenges and had some wise words; posters across a wide range of issues were presented; and we had workshops on travel medicine, yellow fever, mathematical modelling, spatial epidemiology, strongylodies and molecular xenomonitoring. All sessions were thoroughly engaging. We hope you also enjoyed the panel sessions, posters and networking opportunities. Together, we’ve sparked new ideas, built connections, and set the stage for exciting developments.
We’d love your feedback! Please take a moment to complete the survey or drop us an e-mail so we can continue improving future events.
In 2025 the Southern Cross Australiasian Travel and Tropical Medicine Conference will take place on the 12-14th of September 2025 in Melbourne at the Sofitel, don’t forget to register early for the super discounted rate. Stay tuned for updates!
Once again, thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to seeing you next year!
Warm regards,
Professor Richard Franklin (Convenor)
on behalf of the Conference Team
RACGP Education Hours
RACGP education hours approved:
- Education Activities = 8.5 hours
- Reviewing Performance = 7.0 hours
- Total: 15.5 hours for full conference attendance
2024 Conference program
2024 International Keynote Speakers
Professor Gerard Flaherty
Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Adjunct Professor, Mahidol University, Thailand and International Medical University, Malaysia
Professor Anne McCarthy
Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital.
Director of the Tropical Medicine and International Health Clinic at the Ottawa Hospital.
Professor Gerard Flaherty's Bio
Prof Gerard Flaherty, Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Adjunct Professor, Mahidol University, Thailand and International Medical University, Malaysia
MD, PhD, BSc (Hons.), MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPI, MRCPI, Cert. Travel Med. (RCSI), Dip. SEM (GB & I), FFSEM (RCPI & RCSI), FAcadMEd, DTM RCPS (Glas), FFTM RCPS (Glas), FACTM, FFTM (ACTM), MFSEM (UK), MMedSc, Dip. HSc. (Clinical Teaching), MSc Int Trav Health (Sheffield), MECOSEP, MMEd (Dundee), Diop. sa Ghaeilge, Cert. Traffic Med, Cert. Ornith., Cert. Bird Behaviour, FIFA Dip. Foot. Med., PG Cert Sc. Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety, FISTM, AFAMEE, FRGS, FIPC, MRSTMH.
Gerard Flaherty was elected to the role of President-elect of the ISTM in May 2021 and President in May 2023. His research interests include pre-travel risk assessment, travel health behaviour, travellers with pre-existing medical conditions, high altitude medicine, mental health issues and travel, older travellers, technology and artificial intelligence in travel medicine, and travel health education. He has 20 years of clinical experience in travel medicine and has completed tropical medicine courses and expeditions in Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, Russia, Cuba, Peru, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Ghana, Morocco, and South Africa. He has over 250 publications and research presentations to date.
Professor Anne McCarthy's Bio
Anne McCarthy is an Infectious Diseases, Travel and Tropical Medicine Physician and Professor of Medicine in Ottawa, Canada. She is the president-elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She has been an active member of the ISTM as well as the American Society of Tropical Medicine Clinical Group for almost three decades.
Her clinical work includes Tropical Medicine and Travellers’ Helath. Throughout her career she has been committed to health care education and mentoring. She was a longstanding faculty for the ISTM Travel Medicine Update and Review Course. She is a co-Director of the Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine Course, held every two years in Thailand and Cambodia.
She is an active participant in the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and CanTravNet. Her clinical research has included studies related to infectious disease, travel medicine, malaria, migrant health, and global health.
2024 Conference Workshops
Experience stimulating and novel sessions on essential travel and tropic medicine topics, complete with 6 informative workshop.
6 informative workshops
All workshops are included in full conference registration or available as workshop-only tickets.
Workshop 1: Getting started in travel medicine
Workshop 2: Yellow Fever
Workshop 3: Mathematical Modelling
Workshop 4: Spatial epidemiology
Workshop 5: One Health
Strongyloides
Workshop 6: Molecular
Xenomonitoring
2024 Sponsors and Exhibitors
ACTM and Organising Committee for the 7th Southern Cross Australasian Travel and Tropical Medicine Conference (SCTMC) would like to acknowledge and thank the 2024 Sponsors and Trade Exhibitors for their engagement with the Conference. Without their support the Conference would not be possible.
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8th Southern Cross Australasian Travel and Tropical Medicine Conference
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 September 2025
Register now for SCTMC being held at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Friday 12 – Sunday 14 September 2025.
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Register before 31 October 2024.
