Health Center

Travel Medicine

Pepperdine's Travel Health Clinic is sponsored by the Wellness Program and the Student Health Center and provides health education, prevention information, and immunizations for travelers. The clinic is located at the Student Health Center (click here for map.)

What Pepperdine's Travel Health Clinic Offers

An individualized, mandatory Pre-Travel Consultation to identify your health risks for this trip. This may include, but is not limited to: immunizations, altitude sickness, water/food precautions, traveler's diarrhea, Malaria prevention, STD prevention, infectious diseases, and first aid/travel medicine supplies. Your vaccination record will be reviewed during the consultation. This is also the time to address concerns regarding medical issues and personal questions you may have. The consultation costs $40.
An Educational Health Video. It includes an overview of issues that may pertain to your trip. (The video lasts 25 minutes)
A computer printout of the latest travel health information. It includes recommended and required immunizations for the country or countries to which you will be traveling.
All travel and routine immunizations (except for Rabies and Yellow Fever.) Please call (310) 506-4316 for costs of required and suggested immunizations.
Prescriptions for malaria prophylaxis and traveler's diarrhea treatment.

Who is Eligible?

Pepperdine University students. Staff/Faculty family members interested in this program, should call Human Resources at ext. 4190.

How to Make an Appointment

Pepperdine's Travel Health Clinic is by appointment only.
The Student Health Center strongly recommends that the initial travel consultation be set up well in advance of the departure date. Often travel vaccinations require 6 weeks to several months to provide adequate protection.
We recommend that you book your appointment for the Travel Health Clinic when you book the tickets for your trip. For an appointment, please call (310) 506-4316, option 3.
Please be ready to provide the following information: Departure date, specific itinerary, chronic medical conditions, and vaccination history.

Other Travel Health Facilities

If you are unable to be seen at the Pepperdine Travel Health Clinic or would like to be seen elsewhere, check with your private doctor or you may try the following travel health providers. The following is a partial list of available resources located near Malibu. Cost of services and time availability need to be discussed with the individual practitioner.
(Note: Pepperdine University does not officially endorse these providers.)

Terri L. Rock, MD
Travel Medicine and Immunization Center
1260 15th St., Suite 917
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 319-1566

John A. Horton, MD
Edward S. Hanzelik MD
Christina Jones, MD
World Travelers Health Care - A medical group
Wheatshore Medical Plaza
1240 Westlake Blvd., Suite 231
(805) 446-4444

Travel Medicine and Travel Related Web Sites

Click on the following sites for more information.
(Note: Pepperdine University does not officially endorse these resources.)

Traveler's Health
Centers for Disease Control - Traveler's Health
Bureau of Consular Affairs
(travel warnings, passport information, list of doctors/hospitals abroad)
World Health Organization
Association for Safe International Road Travel
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
International Society of Travel Medicine
Wilderness Medical Society

Travel Supplies
Magellan's International Travel Corporation
Travel Medicine, Inc.
Eastern Mountain Sports
Patagonia

Health Insurance

Whether you are traveling out of state or out of the country, it is important to understand your health insurance policy. Travelers may need to purchase additional traveler's insurance from companies designed to meet these needs. Be sure to ask if medical evacuation is provided.

If you are enrolled in the University Insurance Plan or would like more information regarding this plan, please call the University's insurance broker, Acordia Somerton, at (800) 853-5899. You may also access student insurance information online at http://www.somerton-ins.com.