Member benefits
ACTM membership provides members with a variety of benefits ranging from complimentary faculty memberships to discounted products/services and events.
See below for a list of extensive benefits as an ACTM member.
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Special book discount offer
Tourist Health, Safety and wellbeing in the New Normal is a timely and insightful roadmap for customer care in tourism following the pandemic. It provides readers with the most up-to-date professional guidance. Dr Jeff Wilks is excited to offer ACTM members 20% off the printed book or ebook! Limited time offer – Valid Sept 15, 2022 – Oct 13, 2022.
Member benefits
Peer-reviewed journal
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, which is an international journal listed on PubMed, Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index and other international databases with opportunities for members to publish and propose special issues. We encourage members to contribute an article to our Journal.
ACTM Members gets 30% discount on Article Processing Charge
ACTM members gets 30% discount on Article Processing Charge (Institutional Open Access Program discount) if they submit to Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Journal. Authors will need to provide a discount code which can be located by logging into the MyACTM portal.
Annual scientific meetings
We have conducted our annual Southern Cross Travel Medicine Conference (SCTMC) with parallel streams in fields related to Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine. The event is highly sought after with both local and international speakers.
Monthly educational Webinars
Recording of all archive webinars are available to view to all members.
Faculty membership
ACTM Members are invited to join:
- The Faculty of Travel Medicine or Faculty of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine with no additional application fees.
Collaborative network
The College is the premier body in tropical medicine in Australasia, and is recognised by the International Federation for Tropical Medicine. We welcome members from all disciplines related to tropical medicine, including clinicians, medical scientists, veterinary scientists, laboratory experts, and researchers. Complimentary membership is offered to postgraduate students.
Expert and professional groups
The College supports expert and professional groups in travel medicine, expedition and wilderness medicine, One Health, toxinology, medical parasitology and disaster health, as well as engagement between the travel industry and travel health.
College awards, honours and scholarships
The ACTM supports an extensive awards and honours program for our members. In addition, the College wishes to support scientific research and we are advanced in our planning to award an annual grant to early career researcher to present their findings to our annual scientific meeting.
Communications and updates
To keep members up to date we have webinars, roadshow/networking events, social media and website.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The College is committed to supporting the United Nations SDGs and we do what we can to make a difference, including drawing on a greater scientific collaboration between the medical, health and veterinary fields, especially through the One Health, One World approach.
For more information and assistance please contact ACTM Executive Officer, Ms Jennifer Burgess on phone: +61 7 3872 2246 or email: actm@tropmed.org