To minimize personal safety and health hazards and to help you maximize your travel pleasure and experiences, Student Health Services offers international travel consultations for a minimal fee. These consultations take about 1 and ½ hours and are available throughout the year, by appointment, to students, faculty, and staff.

• A travel consultation provides valuable, individualized information on recommended immunizations and tips on how to reduce your risk of injury or illness specific to the area you will be visiting.
• Student Health Services can also administer the recommended vaccines along with providing safety and disease avoiding tips relative to your itinerary.

Please schedule your initial pre-travel visit with SHS at least 8 weeks prior to your departure date.

• Several vaccines require sequential spacing of the doses in a series to provide the optimum level of immunity and protection.
• Others must be completed within a specific time span prior to travel, both for the traveler's protection and to fulfill legal requirements at ports of entry.
  
  Should you need several vaccines and/or a series, the personnel at SHS can set up a schedule for you that is convenient and which also meets the vaccine time-line requirements.

If medications are needed (such as for malaria), several must be started prior to the departure date to provide the full therapeutic effect. There are some vaccines that cannot be administered with anti-malaria medication--therefore having an early start on your travel needs becomes especially important!!