Education and Training
2015 Training: 1,107 Successes Across the U.S. and Abroad
In 2015, the CDC Epi Info™ team held 32 formal training sessions, including seven that were held outside of the United States. A total of 1,107 persons were trained. The map below shows international training locations and additional countries represented at the trainings. These international training locations included:
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Quito, Ecuador
- Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
- Bogota, Colombia
- Bamako, Mali
- Niamey, Niger
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The training sessions and workshops covered an overview/introduction of Epi Info™ 7, demonstration of using the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) application for Ebola preparedness, and lessons learned from the West Africa Ebola outbreak, and other topics.
Epi InfoTM International Training Locations
Number of Persons Trained in Epi InfoTM (All Tools), 2015
Source: Epi Info™ Training Metrics (1/5/2016)
The CDC Epi Info™ Team Hosted An Epi Info™ 7 Train-the-Trainer Workshop
The CDC Epi Info™ team collaborated with the Council of State and Territorial Health Officials (CSTE) to host an Epi Info™ 7 Train-the-Trainer Workshop at CDC for state health department staff members. The workshop provided participants with a comprehensive foundation to successfully teach an Epi Info™ 7 introductory course. The workshop helped enhance participant skills in teaching Epi Info™ content, understanding students’ needs, and discussing complex topics and answering difficult questions.
Key Findings from the CSTE Epi Info™ 2015 Training Needs Assessment
Demographics
- 70% of the respondents were from state-level public health agencies and 21% were from local public health agencies.
- 86% of respondents reported epidemiology as their primary focus.
Use of Epi Info
- 47% reported that Epi Info™ was used in their jurisdiction to analyze data. Of those, 30% to design surveys and 36% to capture survey data.
- 33% reported that receiving training would make their jurisdiction more likely to use Epi Info™.
Technical Assistance
- 68% reported that online webinars would be the most useful type of technical assistance for their jurisdiction.
Building Epi Info™ Capacity – Training Members of the Pan American Health Organization and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
The CDC Epi Info™ team conducted a five-day training session in Quito, Ecuador, on Epi Info™ 7 and the Epi Info™ Viral Hemorrhagic Fever application for 35 representatives from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This training was part of the implementation of a framework developed by PAHO to strengthen national preparedness and response to emerging diseases in the Region of the Americas.
The CDC Epi Info™ Team Provided Training on Epi Info™ for Windows and the DMS at the MenAfriNet Surveillance Workshop
The CDC Epi Info™ team provided training on Epi Info™ for Windows and the DMS at the MenAfriNet Surveillance workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The team also hosted the 2nd annual MenAfriNet Data Management Workshop. Participants included representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa and the Agence de Médicine Préventive (AMP). Burkina Faso intends to implement the DMS nationally in all of its 70 districts. The DMS was also shown at the 2nd annual partner’s meeting in Niamey, Niger, to partners from BMG, CDCF, WHO, AMP and other participants from Niger, Burkina, Mali, Togo, Switzerland, and Ethiopia. The CDC Epi Info™ team continues to support expanding the use of the DMS by facilitating train-the-trainer sessions in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Epi Info™ Recent Releases and Training Videos
New products were released for Epi Info™ for Windows, Epi Info™ for Mobile, and Epi Info™ for Web and Cloud (see https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html).
Epi Info™ Mobile applications bring many of the features of Epi Info™ for Windows onto Android and iOS mobile platforms. Refinement of these applications is ongoing. Epi Info™ Cloud Data Capture and Epi Info™ Cloud Data Analytics are now available in beta and can be downloaded or demonstrated with the click of a button at https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/cloud.html. Training videos for Epi Info™ for Windows can be viewed on CDC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9B9157E47AB3FDFA.
The Epi Info™ Team will continue to support CDC’s mission by developing state of the art tools to detect and respond to new and emerging health threats and by providing technical assistance to users across the world.
For more information about Epi Info™ or to find support and resources, please visit the website at: https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html.
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In 2015, CDC’s Epi Info™ team made major contributions to support the agency’s mission to protect America from health, safety, and security threats, both here at home and abroad. The Epi Info™ 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.
The CDC Epi Info™ team assisted Brazil’s Ministry of Health with deployment of the Epi Info™ for Web and Cloud and Epi Info™ for Mobile. These two products were used for health surveillance data collection and real-time analytics for surveillance during the October 2015 World Indigenous Games in Palmas, Brazil.
The CDC Epi Info™ team assisted the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in Guatemala (at the request of NCCDPHP) with using Epi Info™ for Mobile for a national nutrition surveillance project. Data were successfully collected on mobile devices and INCAP requested that the CDC Epi Info™ team continue to provide support during 2016.