New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine

The New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine is a small, privately held medical practice based in New York, New York. They employ between 5 and 9 individuals and generate an annual revenue of $2.5 million. The center specializes in travel medicine, offering a range of services including pre-travel consultations, immunizations, treatment for travel-related illnesses, and post-travel medical screening. Their state-of-the-art facility in Midtown East is equipped with a full diagnostic laboratory capable of identifying a wide range of travel-related diseases, including diarrheal pathogens, parasites, schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, rickettsial diseases, vector-borne illnesses like malaria and dengue fever, and Lyme disease. Beyond individual travelers, the center provides pre-deployment services for corporations and offers periodic post-travel screening to monitor the health of travelers returning from international destinations. They are a founding member and New York City site for GeoSentinel, a global network of clinicians dedicated to tracking and understanding emerging infectious diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and the International Society of Travel Medicine. Individuals seeking travel health advice or medical services can visit the center in person or through their website at travelhealth.net.