Choose from our websites and some key resources below to learn more.
We were 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 international traveller, travel industry and national government.
We are commissioned by UK Health Security Agency 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).
Health professionals and travellers seeking health information ahead of travel should visit our website: travelhealthpro.org.uk.
Our main goals
- To develop national guidance on travel health for health professionals advising the public.
- To advise on specific situations and circumstances that could affect the health of British travellers.
- To identify and report on disease outbreaks and other health hazards worldwide.
- To share our information and expertise widely.
- To keep a register of, monitor and train Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres (YFVCs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- To collaborate with organisations, particularly in the travel and insurance industries, and in the NHS and government, which share our aim of Protecting the Health of British Travellers.
- To train health professionals to provide best quality, evidence-based trave health advice and services.
- To initiate research, collect and analyse data to enable us to achieve our goals.
Annual reports
- NaTHNaC Annual Report 2023-2024
- NaTHNaC Annual report 2022-2023
- NaTHNaC Annual report 2021-2022
- NaTHNaC Annual report 2020-2021
- NaTHNaC Annual report 2019-2020
- NaTHNaC Annual report 2018-2019
Who we are
Dr Dipti Patel OBE
Director
Dr Vanessa Field
Deputy Director
Administration Team
Masum Miah
Operations Manager
Jayshree Kara-Patel
Business Support
Sheena Ryan
Business Support
Dr Yasvita Gupta
Business Support
Terence Corrigan
Online Communications
Information
Sanch Kanagarajah
Senior Information Analyst
Samia Richards-Zoubir
Analyst for Travel Health
Clinical Team
Dr Lisa Ford (Liverpool)
Clinical Advisor
Dr Catherine Smith
Consultant
Dr Natalia Rodriguez-Valero
Honorary Clinical Fellow
Dr Kirsten MacGregor
Speciality Registrar
Lynda Bramham
Senior Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
Rose Tucker
Deputy Senior Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
Rachael Fletcher
Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
Mary Gawthrop
Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
Michelle Sellors
Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
Alexandra Stillwell
Specialist Nurse (Travel Health)
NaTHNaC has offices in London and Liverpool.
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 Mike Brown
Infection Division Clinical Director, University College London Hospitals (UCLH); Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Kevin Dyer
Senior Business Development Manager, UK Health Security Agency
Dr Vanessa Field
Deputy Director, NaTHNaC
Dr Nicky Longley
Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead in Travel Medicine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals
Prof Dilys Morgan MBE
Chair of NaTHNaC Technical Advisory Group
Dr Dipti Patel OBE
Director, NaTHNaC
Prof Bertie Squire
Professor of Tropical Medicine and Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Dr Fiona Yung
Divisional Manager Clinical Support Services, Pathology, Infection , Camden MSK, University College London Hospitals