About Us

TravelHealthPro is the website comprising the travel health resources of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).

What we do

NaTHNaC was set up by the Department of Health in 2002 with the broad aim of Protecting the Health of British Travellers. We seek to improve the quality of travel health advice given by GP practices, travel clinics, pharmacies and other healthcare providers, and provide up-to-date and reliable information for the traveller, travel industry and national government.

We are commissioned by Public Health England and hosted by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH); we also work in partnership with our other network founders Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD). The network partners and Department of Health provide strategic guidance to NaTHNaC through representation on a Technical Advisory Group which meets quarterly.

Membership of the Technical Advisory Group

Dr Nick Beeching
Clinical Director, Tropical & Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool Hospitals; Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Dr Ron Behrens
Consultant in Travel Medicine, UCLH Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Senior Lecturer in Travel Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Mike Brown
Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals

John De Vial
(Guest) Head of Financial Protection, ABTA

Kevin Dyer
Senior Business Development Manager, Public Health England

Dr Vanessa Field
Deputy Director, NaTHNaC

Dr Vanya Gant
Infection Division Clinical Director, University College London Hospitals (UCLH)

Dr Hilary Kirkbride
Acting Head of Travel and Migrant Health, Public Health England

Prof David Lalloo
Professor of Tropical Medicine and Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Dr George Leahy
Deputy Director for Health Protection

Dr Rima Makarem
(Chair) Non-executive Director, University College London Hospitals

Ruth Parry
Infectious Diseases Senior Scientific Policy Manager, Department of Health

Dr Dipti Patel
Director, NaTHNaC

Dr Nick Phin
Deputy Director for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Surveillance and Control, Public Health England National Infections Service

Melanie Watts
Divisional Manager, Infection, Emergency Services and Critical Care, University College London Hospitals