Tbilisi Public Health Professor Reviews GTour’s Safari Health Guides

By Safari News — Africa Calling Safaris, Partner desk, Nairobi · 12/10/2026

Updated 23 October 2026

GTour’s Safari section, which serves readers combining visits to Georgia with trips to East Africa, now carries medical review by Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD. A professor of public health at David Tvildiani Medical University in Tbilisi and chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia, Pkhakadze checks the paper’s vaccination guidance, disease-risk briefings and wilderness medicine advice against current international standards.

Pkhakadze holds an MD from Tbilisi State Medical University, an MPH from Tribhuvan University and a PhD in public health from the University of Madras. He consults for the World Health Organization on health and migration, serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the European Union of Medical Specialists’ Section of Public Health, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal (gmj.ge). He also founded and leads Accréditation Sans Frontières.

His review covers five GTour safari guides: travel vaccinations for East Africa, malaria prevention and symptoms, altitude sickness on Kilimanjaro, wilderness first aid for bites and stings, and food and water safety. Travellers departing from Europe or the Caucasus should note that several East African vaccinations, including yellow fever, require scheduling weeks before departure, making early planning advisable. Pkhakadze has himself travelled to Kenya and the Maasai Mara, an experience that shapes the practical tone of his reviews.

Each reviewed article carries a credit line naming Pkhakadze, and GTour advises travellers with specific medical concerns to consult a physician or travel medicine clinic before departure.

Based on reporting by Safari News, the travel desk of Africa Calling Safaris (Nairobi), GTour’s partner for East Africa. Read the original there.