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The ITIT App: Illness Tracking in Travellers
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In a mini episode meant to complement our previous “travellers as sentinels for disease” show, ISTM podcast director Dr. Aisha Khatib interviews Prof. Patricia Schlagenhauf, the GeoSentinel Site Director in Zürich, the director of EuroTravNet as well as the Head of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health. As a professor at the University of Zürich, Prof. Schlagenhauf has led the development of the free ITIT app, an illness tracking platform meant for travellers available on both iOS and Android phones. The effort is meant to provide grass-roots, bottom-up support from travellers themselves to inform illness tracking efforts by public health authorities around the world.
LINKS
Learn about the ITIT app, and download it for your iOS or Android phone.
Find a video version of this podcast on the episode web page at the ISTM website.
Prof. Schlagenhauf is a lead author of an academic paper about the ITIT app and illness tracking among travellers: Surveillance of global, travel-related illness using a novel app: a multivariable, cross-sectional study
Travel Unravelled is sponsored by IAMAT, the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers.
KEY MOMENTS
00:09 Show introduction
00:15 Dr. Aisha Khatib introduces the podcast and the guest, Professor Schlagenhauf
00:57 Professor Schlagenhauf explains the purpose of the ITIT app
01:46 Dr. Aisha Khatib asks about the ITIT app, including where to find it and how to sign up
02:26 Professor Schlagenhauf discusses the ITIT app as a public health asset
02:34 Dr. Aisha Khatib highlights the ITIT app as a way for travellers to contribute to research and surveillance
02:53 Dr. Aisha Khatib emphasizes the app's benefits for travellers
02:59 Dr. Aisha Khatib asks what incentives travellers may have to use the ITIT app
03:48 Professor Schlagenhauf discusses the various features and incentives of the ITIT app
03:58 Dr. Aisha Khatib asks about the availability of the ITIT app for download
04:54 Professor Schlagenhauf highlights the "my ITIT health diary" feature of the app
05:21 Dr. Aisha Khatib asks Professor Schlagenhauf about her favorite area of interest in travel medicine
05:56 Professor Schlagenhauf discusses her interest in malaria and travelers
06:11 Professor Schlagenhauf mentions the potential for data collection and analysis using the ITIT app
06:41 Dr. Aisha Khatib encourages listeners to download and use the ITIT app
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