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Epi Info™ for Windows
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After careful consideration, CDC will be phasing out support for Epi Info™. Product development and technical assistance for Epi Info™ will discontinue after Sept. 30, 2025. The Desktop tool will remain functional without CDC assistance as long as Windows 11 is supported by Microsoft. This sunsetting decision is part of CDC's realignment of resources to focus on products that support the ONE CDC approach to data modernization in public health strategies. CDC understands that this may impact your operations, and we want to ensure users have ample time to transition smoothly. CDC is committed to assist throughout this transition period. A team has been assembled to ensure smooth sunsetting of support for Epi Info™ with an emphasis on customer experience. The team will continue to offer support and maintenance for Epi Info™ until the sunset date.
If you have any questions, please contact: epiinfohelp@cdc.gov or check our website in the near future for additional updates/information regarding this announcement.
The essential free software tool for public health practice
Create forms with logic and skip patterns to use on PCs, mobile devices and the web.
Display geographic maps with data collected using Epi Info™ 7 or stored in a variety of file formats and database systems.
Transform data and perform many types of statistical analyses
Download Version 7.2
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Build 7.2.6 October 25, 2023
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Requires Microsoft Windows 7 or higher with Microsoft .NET 4.8. Disclaimer
EDUCATION
Epi Info™ is a key component in public health education at colleges, universities, and other schools of public health around the world.
COLLABORATION
Epi Info™ encourages collaboration between local, national, and international partners using Epi Info™ state and territorial epidemiologists; national centers, institutes, and government offices; and foreign ministries of health and United Nations World Health Organization constituents.
INNOVATION
Epi Info™ is dedicated to enabling the innovation and leadership required to improve public health through informatics.
How is Epi Info™ Used?
Epi Info™ is used worldwide for the rapid assessment of disease outbreaks; for the development of small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; as ad hoc components integrated with other large scale or enterprise-wide public health information systems; and in the continuous education of public health professionals learning the science of epidemiology, tools, and techniques.
- The Form Designer module of Epi Info™ allows users to create questionnaires and data entry forms in Epi Info™. With Form Designer, users place questions and data entry fields on one or many pages and tailor the data entry process with conditional skip patterns, data validation, and custom calculations programmed by the user using Form Designer’s Check Code.
- The Enter Data module of Epi Info™ automatically creates the database from the questionnaire in Form Designer. Users enter data, modify existing data, or search for records. With Enter Data, the Forms are displayed and users perform the data entry while the Check Code validates the data or performs any automatic calculations that were specified in Form Designer.
- The Visual Dashboard is one of the Epi Info™ 7 analysis modules. The Visual Dashboard is designed to be intuitive and simple to use. With the use of gadgets, the need for programming code is minimized. Data can be selected, sorted, listed, or manipulated using the various gadgets in Visual Dashboard. The statistical analyses tools available in Visual Dashboard include frequencies, means, and more advanced statistical calculations (e.g., linear regression and logistic regression). Visual Dashboard has graphing functionality to display data as an Epi Curve, Pareto Chart, and several other bar and column charts.
- The Classic Analysis module is another data analysis module. It is used to read and analyze data entered with the Enter Data module or data imported from 24 different data formats. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. As each command is run, it is saved to the program editor where it can be customized and saved, shared, and used in the future as data are revised.
- The Epi Map module displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info. Epi Map is built around the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) MapObjects software. Epi Map displays shapefiles containing the geographic boundaries layered with data results from the Analysis module.
Disclaimer
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides the Epi Info™ software, translation databases, instructions, examples, sample projects with data, map files, and all other products available on this site (the products) on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the products and assume any risks associated with your use or redistribution of the products. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall CDC or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) be liable to you for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising from the use or inability to use the products (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if CDC or HHS has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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