Mission & Objectives


  1. Bringing together experts from different countries to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and expertise
  2. Promoting collaborative research to obtain multi-center data on the epidemiology, clinical presentation and prevention of travel-related infections
  3. Promoting multidisciplinary management of infections in travellers and immigrants
  4. Offering advice for travellers’ health education programmes in immigrants
  5. Promoting awareness of the importance of travel- and migration-related infections in scientific community, public and stakeholders
  6. Providing educational events for infectious diseases and clinical microbiology specialists
  7. Working together with related ESCMID Study Groups
  8. Stimulating the cooperation between ESCMID and other international organisations interested in travel-associated infections