Travel-ready, before you fly.
A travel health consultation is a pharmacist-led review of your itinerary against current CDC and WHO destination guidance, resulting in a personalized vaccine and prophylaxis plan. Parkway administers travel vaccines on-site in Philadelphia and coordinates prescriptions with your physician when needed.
Who it's for
- International travelers, especially to Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America
- Study-abroad students and university travel programs
- Business travelers on short notice
- Volunteers, missionaries and humanitarian workers
- Families visiting friends and relatives abroad (the highest-risk travel group)
- Cruise passengers and adventure travelers
What you get
- Same-visit administration for most routine and travel vaccines
- Itinerary-specific guidance, not a generic checklist
- Documentation for entry requirements
- Traveler's kit counseling — motion sickness, altitude, traveler's diarrhea, insect repellent
- Coordination with your primary care provider
How it works
- Step 1
Tell us where and when
Share your destinations, dates, activities and accommodations. Ideally 4–6 weeks before departure — but we help last-minute travelers too.
- Step 2
Destination risk review
A pharmacist compares your itinerary to current CDC destination pages and your vaccine history.
- Step 3
Get your plan and your shots
We administer the vaccines we stock the same visit and coordinate anything else with your prescriber.
- Step 4
Leave with documentation
You get an immunization record for visa or entry requirements, plus a written traveler plan.
Travel vaccines we handle
Availability varies by season and supply; call ahead for time-sensitive items.
- Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B (including combined)
- Typhoid
- Tdap / Td
- Influenza (seasonal, including southern-hemisphere timing questions)
- MMR, varicella and polio boosters
- Meningococcal (ACWY and B)
- Rabies pre-exposure guidance and referral
- Yellow fever guidance and referral to a designated vaccination center
Malaria and traveler's diarrhea
Malaria chemoprophylaxis and standby antibiotics require a prescription. We review your region's resistance patterns, recommend an agent to your prescriber, and dispense the same day it's authorized.
Timing matters
Some series (hepatitis B, rabies) need weeks. Others (typhoid oral, hepatitis A) protect quickly. If you're leaving in days, call us — there is almost always something useful we can still do.
Travel Medicine & Travel Vaccines: your questions
Four to six weeks before departure is ideal so multi-dose series can be completed. Last-minute travelers should still come in — many vaccines provide meaningful protection within days.
Talk to a Parkway pharmacist
No phone tree, no queue number. Call us and a pharmacist will answer your question about travel medicine & travel vaccines.