The OHSU Travel Medicine Clinic offers preventative care for OHSU employees planning to travel for any purpose and to any destination worldwide.    

Our services include: 

• Pre-travel consultation and advice 

• Immunizations (routine, recommended, and required for travel) 

• Prescriptions for preventative or self-treatment medications 

• Post-travel evaluation or referrals, as necessary 

While travel is usually a fun and exciting activity most people plan for and look forward to, it can also pose health and safety risks to individuals and the communities they travel and return to. Pre-travel care helps promote and protect traveler and global health and safety.  

During your visit, our travel medicine specialist will carefully review your itinerary, medical and vaccination history, and go over country-specific risks, recommendations, and regulations with you. Our goal is to provide you with up-to-date information and recommendations that will help prepare you for a safe and healthy trip and return.  

The CDC recommends that you schedule a pre-travel appointment, ideally 4-6 weeks before your trip, however, it is never too late to receive pre-travel care if you are leaving sooner. You can schedule an appointment by emailing travmed@ohsu.edu or calling 503-418-4143. 

You are welcome to check with your PCP about whether they can see you for a pre-travel appointment. Most providers usually refer their patients to a specialized travel clinic to receive the most comprehensive and destination-specific care. Unlike most clinics, OHSU’s travel medicine clinic is a one-stop service that maintains a large inventory of hard-to-find travel vaccines, such as yellow fever and typhoid fever and is experienced in prescribing travel-related medications such as anti-malarial and altitude sickness medications. 

Every itinerary is different, which is why we customize our consultations based on the countries you will be traveling to or through and your travel, medical, and vaccine history.  

You can visit the CDC's Travelers' Health website to see some very general vaccine recommendations. You may see a very long list, but it’s not likely that you will need everything listed there. Our clinician will narrow that down to what is right for you and your specific trip. 

Please bring the following to your visit 

• Detailed itinerary 

• Immunization Records 

• Information on any medical conditions or current medications, if available 

Call 503-418-4143 or email travmed@ohsu.edu. Please provide us with 3 dates and times that work best for you. We are open Tuesday-Friday 8am-3pm.  

Most insurances (including OHSU PPO) will reimburse most travel medicine services. 

All patients, regardless of travel purpose may request an itemized receipt that is coded for insurance and is easy to submit to an insurance company for reimbursement through OHSU’s billing department. Call 866-617-6855 or email: askus@ohsu.edu. 

If you are traveling for OHSU-authorized business, you may file for reimbursement through your department. 

All International Travel for OHSU-authorized business must be registered through the Off Campus Authorization link. The application should be completed as early as possible. 

Everyone’s insurance plan is different, so we do not know what they will or will not cover. Most insurances, however, do not cover travel-related services.  

If your insurance covers the cost of the vaccine, they will also cover the administration fee since this is a standard type of fee that most clinics charge. 

At this time, our services are available to OHSU employees only. 

The costs above are after the applied 35% self-pay discount

Not routinely. The CDC does not recommend a post-travel visit, unless the following conditions apply to you: 

• You return with a fever from a country where malaria is or may be present, so that malaria can be excluded as a cause of their illness; 

• You received treatment for malaria while traveling; 

• You experience illness in the weeks following their return home, particularly if fever, persistent diarrhea, vomiting, jaundice, urinary disorders, skin disease or genital infection occurs; 

• You may have been exposed to a serious infectious disease while traveling; or 

• You have spent more than 3 months in a developing country; 

• You have a pre-existing medical condition that needs to be evaluated by your primary care provider. 

We are using EPIC as our electronic health record system to document your services.