Harold H. Collins Information Technology Specialist Epi Info™ Background Korean Public Health Surveillance Conference 30 March 2011 Epi Info™ Background and History Public Health Software for Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office
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Harold H. CollinsInformation Technology Specialist
Epi Info™ BackgroundKorean Public Health Surveillance Conference
30 March 2011
Epi Info™ Background and History
Public Health Software for Microsoft
Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7
Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office
Epi Info™ Background and History
Purpose of presentation What is Epi Info™? History and timeline Epi Info today Epi Info™ Team and Resources Epi Info™ 7 release Questions
Purpose
Provide an introduction to Epi Info™ and present a brief history of its development and its application to public health issues around the world.
Explain the distinctiveness of the Epi Info™ suit of tools, how they are used, and who uses them.
Acquaint you with the Epi Info™ team and resources available to Epi Info™ users.
Present information on the Epi Info™ 7 release.
Provide an opportunity for questions about Epi Info™.
What is Epi Info™?
A suite of tools
A standards-based approach
Freely distributable
Epi Info™ History Timeline
Worldwide Use of Epi Info™
Epi Info™ is used around the globe for the rapid assessment of disease outbreaks, the development of surveillance information systems to support continuous surveillance, and many community health initiatives.
In Africa Epi Info™ is used as the core of surveillance systems for collection and analysis of vaccine preventable diseases.
In India Epi Info™ is used for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (Polio) surveillance.
Since 1998, there have been approximately two million successful Epi Info™ downloads from the CDC website in 180 countries.
Epi Info™ has been translated in multiple languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Use PercentPublic Health Research 34.3%
Public Health Education 28.9%
Clinical Research 24.8%
Public Health Practice 22.5%
National 20.1%
International 16.4%
Clinical Practice 15.3%
Community 13.7%
State 9.8%
Who Uses Epi Info™
*There were 18,703 new registered users since 1 January 2011
Epi Info™ Use Is Increasing
Over 200 new Epi Info™ user registrations each day
10% of new registrations are for 10 or more users
Growing User Community (phConnect)
Free Software
Free Technical Support
Continuing development of Regional Surveillance Systems as well as Emergency Response application
Epi Info™ Today
Compatibility
File formats
Epi Info™ Version 3.5.3 suite of tools
Innovative set of epidemiology tools for use today
Epi Info™ Team and Resource Information
Epi Info 7 scheduled for release September 2011
Epi Info™ Compatibility
Windows and Internet standards Windows 7, Vista, XP, NT,
2000, 98
MS Access file format (97-2003)
Uses Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 8 and 7
Uses ESRI ArcView compatible map files
Epi Info™ Readable File Formats
Access 97, 2000 dBASE 5.0 dBASE III dBASE IV Epi 2000 Epi 6 Rec MS Excel 3 (95) MS Excel 4 (98) MS Excel 5
(2000) MS Excel 8
(2003) FoxPro 2
FoxPro 2.5 FoxPro 3.0 HTML ODBC Paradox 3.x Paradox 4.x Paradox 5.x Text Text
(Delimited) Text (Fixed)
Importing MS Excel Files
Suite of Tools
MakeView Enter
Analysis
Epi Map
Epi Report
Translation
NutStat
Epi Info™ Menu
StatCalc
Data Compare
Epi Lock
Compact
Table-to-View
CDC Epi Info™ Team
José Aponte Training Coordinator David Brown Epi Info™ 7 Developer Harold Collins Community Liaison James Haines Epi Info™ 7 Developer Asad Islam Epi Info™ Team Lead Erik Knudsen Epi Info™ Help Desk Roger Mir Custom Applications David Nitschke Epi Info™ Technical Lead
Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.