On-line Travel Health Training – ACHA

Beyond Backpacks: A Guide to Healthy Travel is a free on-line program designed to assist school college students put together for secure and wholesome journey.

The course is being piloted by way of the 2025–26 educational yr. To be taught extra or categorical curiosity in taking part, please full the curiosity kind here.

This program is a part of the ACHF Campus Travel Health Programs undertaking with Valneva. See additionally: Guide for Travel Health Practices

About the Course

Designed to be accomplished in 1–2-hours, Beyond Backpacks options partaking brief movies, interactive actions, and evaluation questions overlaying related journey well being matters, together with:

• Intro to Beyond Backpacks
• Mental Health
• Packing Health Essentials
• Travel Vaccinations/Travel Immunizations
• Travel Health Insurance
• Communication/Emergency Planning
• Identity Care
• Food and Water Precautions
• Responsible/Ethical Travel
• Bite Avoidance Measures
• Returning Travelers
• General Health and Safety Tips

Beyond Backpacks will be simply built-in into your campus studying administration system (e.g., Canvas, Brightspace) or accessed externally. Both choices will let you monitor college students’ completion and comprehension of the content material.

The content material has been focus group examined and is tailor-made for youthful vacationers.

You can preview a pattern of the video content material here.

The Beyond Backpacks course is good for campuses with out devoted journey well being companies, although establishments with present assets can also discover it a helpful complement.

Questions?

Contact ACHA’s Director of Strategic Partnerships Robyn Buchsbaum at [email protected].