How to use the new vaccinations hub before your first volunteer trip

What you'll find at /tools/vaccinations

The new vaccinations hub is an authoritative-source aggregator, not a recommendation engine. Pick your destination, see the framework, click through to the actual authoritative source for vaccine guidance. We're explicit about this on the page — the orange disclaimer at the top says: "We do not publish per-country vaccination recommendations. Only a travel-medicine clinician can advise for your specific situation."

Why we don't publish recommendations

Vaccine recommendations change. Yellow Fever entry requirements update yearly. New endemics appear (Zika spread in the 2010s; Marburg in 2024). A static page on a planning resource is the wrong place to host the canonical answer for what an individual traveller needs.

Our editorial position: link to the authoritative sources, explain the framework, and tell readers to verify with a travel-medicine clinic in their home country.

The six sources we link to

The hub lists six authoritative information sources, each with a brief role:

6. Public Health Agency of Canada — Canadian-perspective guidance

For each, you pick your destination from the dropdown and we send you to the country-specific page on that authoritative site. We don't summarise; we link.

The framework section explained

The framework block on the hub walks through three tiers:

The framework is general public-knowledge tropical-travel-medicine framing. The specifics are at the authoritative source.

What to do before your trip

The recommended workflow:

What we can't do

We can't recommend a specific clinic, vaccine product, or schedule for you. We're a planning resource — the clinical decision belongs to a clinician with your medical history in front of them.