Travel vaccinations in Sunshine
Pre-travel consults, single-visit vaccination plans, and yellow-fever referrals.
0.4 km
to the clinic
1–2 min
off-peak
Travel vaccinations
City of Brimbank
What we deliver for Sunshine
We provide pre-travel consultations and vaccinations for residents heading overseas, visiting family abroad (VFR), or working internationally. Common patterns we see in Melbourne's west: extended family visits to Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East.
A pre-travel consult takes about 20 minutes. We review your destination(s), trip length, traveller risk profile (age, pregnancy, immune status), and existing AIR record, then build a vaccination plan you can act on in one or two visits.
For yellow-fever vaccination we refer to an accredited yellow-fever centre — we'll handle the referral so you don't need a second consult to organise it.
Languages spoken at the counter include Vietnamese, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Greek, Macedonian, Albanian, Bosnian, Somali, Bengali and Filipino — just ask when you arrive.
What's included
Why local matters for Sunshine
A local clinic means you can walk in for additional doses without re-booking — important for multi-dose travel courses like hep B accelerated (3 doses in 3 weeks) and rabies pre-exposure (3 doses in 3 weeks). Local also means we know the visit-family-and-relatives patterns of our community: extended trips to Africa, Asia and the Middle East get specific vaccine attention that a generic travel clinic might miss.
Getting to the clinic from Sunshine
Train. Sunshine Station is a 5-minute walk; the Sunshine, Werribee, Williamstown, Geelong and V/Line regional services all stop here.
Bus. Routes 215, 216, 219, 220, 410, 422 and 425 stop at Sunshine Marketplace.
Walking. Inside Sunshine Marketplace at 80 Harvester Rd — front-of-centre, ground floor.
How to book
Walk-in for a consult or book online. For travel within 6 weeks: book the consult as soon as possible — most travel vaccines need a defined lead time to give protection by departure.
Common questions
How far in advance should I book a pre-travel consult?+
Ideally 6–8 weeks before you fly. For most destinations a 2-week lead time is enough to get useful protection, but hepatitis B (standard schedule), rabies pre-exposure, and Japanese encephalitis all need longer to be fully effective.
Do you take Medicare?+
Pre-travel consults at the pharmacy are not Medicare-rebatable (Medicare doesn't cover travel medicine). Most travel vaccines themselves are also non-NIP and self-funded. We publish all our pricing on the Pricing page so there are no surprises.
Do you offer yellow-fever vaccinations?+
Yellow fever requires an accredited International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP). We don't administer it ourselves but we will refer you to a nearby accredited centre and pre-fill your trip details so the second consult is short.
I'm visiting family in [country]. What's a typical vaccine list?+
It depends on the country and how rural/urban your stay is. For most VFR travellers we look at: hep A (almost universal), typhoid, rabies (if extended rural stays), MMR catch-up (if not documented), and a dTpa booster if more than 10 years since the last. The consult covers your specific itinerary.
Other services for Sunshine
Workplace vaccinations in Sunshine
On-site flu clinics, travel vaccinations and hep B programs for local employers.
Aged-care vaccinations in Sunshine
Resident and staff vaccination programs aligned with the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards.
Sunshine hub
All vaccination services for Sunshine residents and walk-ins.
Travel vaccinations in other Melbourne-west suburbs
This page is general information for Sunshine residents and local businesses, and is not a substitute for advice from a treating clinician. Vaccine eligibility and funding are subject to change at the discretion of the Australian Government and Victorian Department of Health. Vaccines are referred to by disease only in line with the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code.