About CATMAT

The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) is an expert advisory body that assists PHAC with travel health-related advice for travellers and health care professionals.

The Committee was formed in February 1990 to:

• provide recommendations relating to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and other health hazards that may be encountered by Canadian travellers outside of Canada;
  
• suggest mechanisms for the widespread dissemination and utilization of such recommendations and other travel or tropical medicine-related health information; and
  
• advise on priorities for epidemiological research and other activities related to travel or tropical medicine.

CATMAT Statements & Recommendations

Subject	Title	Date
Arthropod Bites	Statement on Personal Protective Measures to Prevent Arthropod Bites - Update	2005
Cruise Ship Travel	Statement on Cruise Ship Travel	2005
Dengue Fever	Statement on Dengue	2009
Ethics	Statement on Ethics and Travel (External link)	2003
Evidence-based Medicine	Guidelines about Evidence-Based Medicine	1994
Fever	Fever in the Returning International Traveller	2011
Hepatitis	Statement on Hepatitis Vaccines for Travellers	2008
High Altitude Sickness	Statement on High-Altitude Illnesses	2007
Influenza	Statement on Travel, Influenza, and Prevention	2005
International Adoption	Statement on International Adoption	2010
Japanese Encephalitis	Statement on Protection Against Japanese Encephalitis	2011
Jet Lag	Travel Statement on Jet Lag (External link)	2003
Malaria	Canadian Recommendations for the Prevention and Treatment of Malaria Among International Travellers	2009
Meningococcal	Statement on Meningococcal Vaccination for Travellers	2009
Motion Sickness	Statement on Motion Sickness (External link)	2003
Older Travellers	Statement on Older Travellers	2011
Pediatrics	Statement on Pediatric Travellers	2010
Polio	Poliomyelitis Vaccination for International Travellers (External link)	2003
Pregnancy	Statement on Pregnancy and Travel	2010
Rabies	Statement on Travellers and Rabies Vaccine (External link)	2002
Risk of Injury	Statement on Risk of Injury and Travel	2010
Sexually Transmitted Infections	Statement on Travellers and Sexually Transmitted Infections	2006
Travellers' Diarrhea	Statement On Persistent Diarrhea In The Returned Traveller	2006
Travellers' Diarrhea	Statement on New Oral Cholera and Travellers' Diarrhea Vaccination	2005
Travellers' Diarrhea	Statement on Travellers' Diarrhea (External link)	2001
Travel Medicine	Guidelines for the Practice of Travel Medicine	2009
Travel Medicine	The Immunocompromised Traveller	2007
Travel Medicine	Travel Medicine Resources for Canadian Practitioners	2006
Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE)	Statement on Tick-Borne Encephalitis	2006
Tuberculosis	Risk Assessment and Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Travellers	2009
Typhoid	Statement on Overseas Travellers and Typhoid	1994
Yellow Fever	Statement for Travellers and Yellow Fever	2010