GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

Professor Karin Leder and Dr Sarah McGuinness are part of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, a global collaboration of over 70 specialised travel and tropical medicine sites across six continents. This international network is dedicated to monitoring infectious and noninfectious travel-related health issues, improving our understanding of how these illnesses spread across borders.

At each GeoSentinel site, clinicians contribute anonymised health data from patients to a central database that captures over 20,000 travel-related diagnoses annually. This data is crucial for monitoring diseases with global implications, enabling the rapid identification of emerging health threats and informing timely public health responses.

The GeoSentinel Network is at the forefront of advancing travel medicine and infectious diseases research. It provides invaluable insights to public health authorities on the epidemiology and clinical presentation of key illnesses, helping to curb the spread of diseases. Additionally, GeoSentinel data shapes public health policies, enhances pre-travel prevention strategies, informs immigrant health services, and improves healthcare outcomes for travellers around the world.