Rate My Professor Claire Wong

Claire Wong's research and academic interests center on travel medicine, encompassing travel risk assessment and management, vaccine administration, prevention of diseases such as typhoid and malaria in travellers, tailored health advice for special risk groups including older travellers and those visiting friends and relatives abroad (VFR), and evaluation of travel medicine practices like yellow fever vaccination centres. Her key publications include the article 'Travel health: routine, recommended and required vaccines' in the British Journal of Nursing (2011, with Hilary Simons), 'Health advice for older people travelling overseas' (2012), 'The prevention of typhoid in travellers' (2012), 'Preventing malaria in travellers: an overview' (2012), and chapters such as 'The Last-Minute Traveller', 'Vaccines for Mass Travel', 'Vaccine Administration', and 'New Zealand Immunisation Practice' (all 2015), along with contributions to 'The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel' edited by Marc Shaw (2015). She holds fellowships from the Faculty of Travel Medicine RCPS(Glasg) and the International Society of Travel Medicine (awarded 2018-2019), recognizing her expertise as one of New Zealand's leading travel health nurses. Claire is a member of the Standing Committee for Travel Health Nurses of Australia and New Zealand (THNANZ), established in 2020 by the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, and has presented at conferences such as the South Conference Travel Medicine Conference (2022).