The ISTM fosters research, facilitates the rapid exchange of information, and provides educational programming to serve the travel medicine community.
Typically alternating between Europe and North America, each CISTM provides opportunities for medical professionals to advance their specialty of travel medicine through plenary, symposium, and workshop meetings.
Published by ISTM six times a year, it provides medical professionals with current research and original articles.
[7] The GeoSentinel Network was founded in 1995 with the support of ISTM and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify and alert medical professionals of illnesses among travelers, immigrants, and refugees.
GeoSentinel Sites, located on five continents, participate in surveillance and monitoring of travelers to detect alarming diagnoses or atypical events.