Epi Info 2015 annual report

Abstract

In 2015, CDC\ue2\u20ac\u2122s Epi Info\ue2\u201e\ua2 team made major contributions to support the agency\ue2\u20ac\u2122s mission to protect America from health, safety, and security threats, both here at home and abroad. The Epi Info\ue2\u201e\ua2 team provided tools to support outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, monitoring of mass gatherings and data analysis and visualization projects. The team also conducted training sessions for more than 1,000 individuals across the United States and among our international partners.Epi Info\ue2\u201e\ua2 is a public domain suite of interoperable software tools designed for the global community of public healthpractitioners and researchers.It provides for easy construction of data entry forms and databases, a customized data entry experience, and dataanalyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an informationtechnology background.Epi Info\ue2\u201e\ua2 is used for outbreak investigations; for developing small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; asanalysis, visualization, and reporting (AVR) components of larger systems; and in continuing education in the scienceof epidemiology and public health analytic methods at schools of public health around the world.Publication date from document properties.2015_annualreport_epiinfo.pd