Epi Info™
Epi Info™ is a public domain suite of software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background. Epi Info™ is used for outbreak investigations; for developing small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; as analysis, visualization, and reporting (AVR) components of larger systems; and in the continuing education in the science of epidemiology and public health analytic methods at schools of public health around the world. The major components of Epi Info include:
- MakeView - a program for creating questionnaires, automatically creating the database, and customizing the data entry process
- Enter - a program for using the questionnaires created in MakeView to perform the data entry
- Analysis - a program for producing statistical analyses of data and diplaying the results as lists, tables, charts, or graphs
- Epi Map - a program for creating GIS maps overlayed with survey data
- Epi Report - a program for combining Analysis output into professional printer-ready format or saved as HTML files for easy web publishing.
“Epi Info™” is a trademark of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The programs, documentation, and teaching materials are in the public domain and may be freely copied, distributed, and translated.
Epi Info™ - Community Edition
Epi Info™ Community Edition is the open source project to reproduce the popular Epi Info™ suite of tools in C#, with the goal of developing a data collection and analytics system for public health that is highly scalable, platform independent, and database agnostic. While the Community Edition is still in its early stages (pre-1.0 release), public health professionals looking to perform critical activities are
highly recommended to continue to use the closed-source but feature-complete version of Epi Info™ available from the CDC's
Epi Info™ website.
We are currently looking for motivated developers and users to join our community and assist with the development and testing of the system to make it feature complete. People seeking to join our community may do so by contacting the Epi Info™ Help Desk at
EpiInfo@CDC.gov.
Build 0.6 Coming Soon...
It's almost here, folks! We have made significant progress in stabilizing the code base and are mere days away from releasing build 0.6. This is a major milestone as this release will be the first to
enable clinical and case-based data collection and analytics for H1N1! The screenshots above show the "Make View" and "Enter" modules being used to reproduce
CDC's H1N1 Clinical Forms. More to be added soon.
Resources
For more information, please contact the Epi Info™ Help Desk at
EpiInfo@CDC.gov.