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 primary applications within Epi Info are:
- 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 PRE-BETA open source version of the popular Epi Info™ suite of tools available from the
Epi Info™ website .
This UNFINISHED rewrite project is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts. We are currently looking for motivated developers and users to join our community to assist with the development and testing in order to complete the suite of tools and move the project into the beta phase. People seeking to join our community can find more information at
MyEpi.Info.
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For more information, please contact the Epi Info™ Help Desk at EpiInfo@CDC.gov.