Catherine Keil
Nurse Practitioner Travel Health and Immunisations
MN(NP) RN BSc(Hons) Dip TM(RCPSG) CTH(ISTM) FACTM
Catherine Keil is an Australian/British Nurse Practitioner specialising in travel health and immunisations.
She completed a BSc Honours degree in Geography in 1995 from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, with an interest in Medical Geography. She went on to complete a Nursing Diploma in 1998 from Kingston University/St George’s Medical School, London, UK, which involved an exchange program to Uganda. After travelling and working in Africa, South East Asia and Central America she became a practice nurse based in London. She specialised in travel health which led her to working for Emirates Airline in Dubai for 10 years where she was instrumental in setting up a travel health clinic for the crew and families. In 2006 she completed the Diploma in Travel Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, UK, and in 2014 completed the ISTM Certificate in Travel Health.
After moving to Australia, she completed a Masters in Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) from Flinders University, Adelaide in 2017 and now works as an Endorsed Nurse Practitioner in Travel Health and Immunisations. She is on the steering committee of the Nurse Professional Group for the International Society of Travel Medicine and in 2019 she became a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine.
When not consulting, Catherine keeps herself busy with travel health writing, family, photography and sport.
Catherine will be consulting Mondays, providing relevant and specific travel health advice including advice on the prevention of travellers’ diarrhoea, malaria/mosquito-borne diseases, rabies risk and much more. She can provide and administer the recommended vaccinations for your travel.
Additionally, she can provide advice and administer routine vaccinations including flu, whooping cough, shingles, q-fever, meningococcal and school catch-ups.