Travel & Immunization Center

About the Program

Our Travelers' Advice and Immunization Practices provide complete pre-travel medical evaluation, including education about prevention of illness (food and water precautions, mosquito precautions, precautions for altitude sickness) and immunizations and prophylaxis. Immunizations which are available include yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid, hepatitis A, rabies, meningococcal meningitis, tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis and others. We also offer prophylaxis for malaria and diarrheal diseases. We provide care to adults, children and families.

These practices also serve as full immunization centers for routine and specialty vaccines unrelated to international travel, including vaccines against chicken pox (varicella), zoster (shingles), pneumococcus (pneumonia vaccine), Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib), meningococcus (meningitis vaccine), hepatitis B, rabies (pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis), measles/mumps/rubella, tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis, polio, human papillomavirus (HPV) and others.

Many immunizations require multiple injections and take weeks to reach full effectiveness, so please make your appointment as soon after you make your travel plans as possible.

The Travel & Immunization Center is a Member of the Global TravEpiNet Program. Global TravEpiNet is a national network of travel clinics across the United States. The network is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is aimed at advancing the health of individuals who travel internationally. The network is coordinated by Massachusetts General Hospital. The MGH Travel & Immunization Center is also a Member of the Heading Home Healthy Program, also supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and coordinated by Mass General. The Heading Home Healthy Program includes a number of free resources, including web tools that allow you to generate CDC-based recommendations based on your proposed international travel.