For students, faculty, and staff traveling abroad for MIT-sponsored travel, MIT Health’s Travel Health Clinic can provide the first step to a safe and healthy trip.
Overview
MIT Health’s travel health professionals provide advice, immunizations, and specialized medications to hundreds of individuals each year.
MIT Health’s Travel Health can help students, faculty, and staff develop a safe travel plan before traveling abroad.
Note: All MIT Health travel clinic visits are conducted via telehealth.
Making a travel health appointment far enough in advance
Schedule your telehealth appointment well in advance of your trip, ideally eight weeks prior to travel. Advance planning is crucial because some vaccines may take up to a month to become fully effective, and others require a series of injections. To schedule a telehealth appointment, use the online scheduling link above and request a travel appointment.
If you require a vaccination, after your initial telehealth visit we will send you a link to schedule an in-person appointment to receive your vaccine.
Note: All MIT Health travel clinic visits are conducted via telehealth.
Insurance coverage for travel immunizations
ALL PATIENTS: The cost associated with all travel clinic-related vaccinations will be billed to your insurance company. Depending on your specific insurance situation, you may be required to pay a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance for your vaccine. You will be responsible for any outstanding balance that is not covered by insurance.
STUDENTS: The cost of the travel-related vaccinations and consultation visits will be submitted to your insurance company, and you will be responsible for any outstanding balance that is not covered by insurance.
For questions about coverage for travel-related vaccines, students may contact Blue Cross Blue Shield Member Services at 1 (800) 262-2583 or their personal insurance company.
Boston/Cambridge Travel Clinics
If you are unable to schedule an appointment with MIT Health and require a vaccine for international travel, the following are other travel clinics in the greater Boston/Cambridge area.
Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center Travel Clinic
330 Mount Auburn Street
South 1
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Phone: 617-499-5757
https://mountauburnhospital.org/services/travel-medicine
Passport Health Cambridge
705 Cambridge Street
2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02141
Phone: 617-500-0306
passporthealthusa.com/locations/ma/cambridge/411
Cambridge Health Alliance Boston Travel Medicine Clinic
1 Cabot Rd
2nd Floor
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617-591-4660
https://www.challiance.org/services-programs/specialty-care/travel-medicine
Boston Medical Travel Medicine
725 Albany Street
9th Floor Shapiro Center
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: 617-414-4290
https://www.bmc.org/infectious-diseases/travel-clinic
Mass General Hospital Travel and Immunization Center
55 Fruit Street
Cox Building, 5th Floor
Boston, MA, 02114
Phone: 617-724-6454
Note: dial 866-211-6588 to register with the hospital before calling to make an appointment.
https://www.massgeneral.org/medicine/infectious-diseases/treatments-and-programs/travel-and-immunization-program
Tufts Medical Center Traveler Health Services
260 Tremont Street
3rd floor Biewend Building
Boston, MA, 02116
Phone: 617-636-7010
https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/services-treatments/infectious-diseases/travelers-health
Boston Children's Hospital Travel and Geographic Medicine
300 Longwood Ave.
First floor
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-355-5945
https://www.childrenshospital.org/services/travel-and-geographic-medicine-clinic