Center East Travel Advisory and University Travel Protections

Travel Programs & Resources

Travel Insurance

The University’s travel insurance benefits can be found without charge to UC college and employees who journey on official UC enterprise, in addition to to college students touring in UC-sponsored and -supervised off-campus actions. Coverage additionally extends to spouses, home companions, and dependents when touring with University college, employees, or college students as touring companions. The advantages embrace however usually are not restricted to safety extraction, medical evacuation, and journey help. Review the small print out there on UCOP’s Travel Risk and Insurance site for extra details about advantages and limitations.

Please contact any of the next workforce members in case you have a right away query about journey insurance coverage advantages:

Travel Registration

Given the present journey panorama, it’s crucial that UC vacationers register all University business travel and full their journey profile within the Crisis24 Horizon app, together with offering emergency contact info.

To account for the security and safety of scholars, college, and employees, we have to reply rapidly when worldwide emergencies happen. Failure to correctly register journey could end in communication delays or difficulties.

Additionally, registered vacationers obtain real-time journey alerts from Crisis24. If journey is booked by UC Travel or Connexxus (besides SWABIZ), the traveler’s itinerary will mechanically be registered; in any other case, journey should be manually registered by way of the UCAway website.

Travel Alert Listserv

IRM maintains a journey alert listserv that gives journey program coordinators with pressing journey info. If you’re a journey program coordinator, e mail [email protected] to be added to this checklist.

Travel Security Briefings

Travelers on University enterprise to high-risk locations could request a customized journey briefing from our workplace. High-risk locations normally pose distinctive safety challenges and/or are sometimes rated level 3 or higher by the U.S. State Department. Please contact our workplace for particulars.

Crisis24’s Horizon App

The Crisis24 Horizon app gives on-the-go journey intelligence and help by the next options:

• 24/7 hotline and disaster sign on the cell app to make use of in instances of want.
• Alerts of threats and disruptions by way of textual content, e mail, or app push alerts.
• Map views of menace zones – areas inside cities and areas which can be of upper threat than the encompassing areas – corresponding to high-crime neighborhoods.
• Risk rankings and placement intelligence of security and safety points in nations, provinces, and cities worldwide.

Additional Travel Planning Resources

UC has Cybersecurity Guidelines for International Travel, and the U.S. State Department provides travel advisories and has issued a worldwide caution alert.

STEP Registration can also be extremely advisable for U.S. passport holders touring internationally. Non-U.S. passport holders should register with their nation’s embassy. Please notice {that a} field safety plan is required earlier than getting into the sphere.

Staff & Faculty Counseling Center

Finally, we wish to remind you that confidential psychological well being assist is on the market by UCLA’s Staff & Faculty Counseling Center. Whether you might be immediately impacted or feeling the load of those world occasions, you may entry free counseling and disaster sources by visiting their web site or by calling (310) 794-0245.

Please proceed to prioritize your nicely‑being and attain out for assist if you happen to want it — your security, each bodily and emotional, stays our highest precedence.

Sincerely,

Dean Malilay
Director, Insurance & Risk Management