GeoSentinel  is an international network of clinics and healthcare providers dedicated to monitoring infectious diseases and other travel-related health issues among international travelers and migrants.

The project is a surveillance study which tracks travel-related diseases which have the potential to have a global impact and at the advances of the fields of travel medicine, tropical medicine and general infectious diseases. Additionally it provides important information to keeps public health authorities up to date on the epidemiology and clinical presentation of key travel-related illnesses, which can help to mitigate the spread of disease.

Objectives
The main objectives for this project are to:

1. Maintain and international communications and data collection network of travel and tropical medicine sites on all continents (except Antarctica)
2. Track geographic and temporal trends in infectious diseases among travellers and migrants
3. Track geographic and temporal trends in selected non-infectious health issues that have a close relationship with travel and migration
4. Conduct syndromic surveillance that may herald new outbreaks or bioterrorist events
5. Identify emerging and novel infectious diseases among international travellers
6. Disseminate relevant information and suggested response options for new or emerging infections, including potential bioterrorism threats to the network of GeoSentinel clinicians and other collaborating networks, as well as the medical and public health community at large
7. Conduct research which refines our understanding of the epidemiology and impact of infectious travel-related illness among travellers
8. Produce knowledge for the purpose of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of travel-related illnesses.

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