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.

Resources

• CDC Epi Info™ website
• Epi Info™ Community Edition
• Discussion Forum (all topics)
  • MakeView / Enter
  • Analysis
  • Epi Map
  • Epi Report
  • Translations
  • Utilities
• Epi Info™ Templates and Forms Library
  • Food and Waterborne Illness
  • Infectious Disease
  • Influenza
  • Injury
  • Mosquito-Transmitted Diseases
  • Sexually-Transmitted Diseases
  • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • All Others

“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.