Epi Info 3.5.x Training Portal

Two Weeks Epi Info Advance Training Course for MPH Residents was successfully conducted from Sunday, 22nd February 2015. This course is part of the MPH course unit "Epidemiologic applications of computers". The main objective of the course is to build essential skills of the residents for managing Epidemiological Research Data in an efficient way.

What is Epi Info™?

Epi Info is statistical software for handling epidemiological

research data. The software is designed and developed by

Center for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, USA. Epi

Info is a key component in public health education at

colleges, universities, and other schools of public health

around the world.

It has been estimated that Epi Info software is being used

in more than 181 countries of the world and there are more

than one million users of Epi Info worldwide. Various

translation of this software is also available and at present

this software is transaled in more than 13 diffenet

languages.

Epi Info software is not a new software. It has a history of

more than 25 years. The first verion of this software was

released in 1985. It was DOS based version according to the

available operating system at that time. First Windows

version was released in Year 2000. Epi Info-7 is the Latest

release of Epi Info from CDC. This is one of the major

enhancements over its previous version of Epi Info 3.5.3

with a totally new platform and many new features.

Epi Info Training by FETP

The Training and Development Section of Field Epidemiology Training Program

(FETP) has designed five days short training courses on Basic and Advanced

Data Management using Epi Info 3.5.x and Epi Info-7 software. These training

courses are mainly for the employees of Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, focusing mainly on the public health professionals with main objective

to enhance the skills of the participants for Health Data Mangement and

Analysis. FETP, in collaboration with the Traning Department of the Ministry of

Health is conducting these courses in different regions of the Kingdom since

2011.

In the Year 2013, a series of six training courses were approved by the Training

Department of the Ministry of Health for the regions of Najran, Asir, Qasim,

Baha, Taif and Riyadh. For the year 2014, four training courses were approved

for the regions of Madinah, Jeddah, Al-Ahsa and Al-Khubar. All courses were

successfully conducted. New courses for the year 2015 are being planned for

other regions of the Kingdom. The schedule for these will be announced after

formal approval from the Training department of MOH.

Epi Info Training Courses for the Year 2015

Sno	Region	From	To	Status
1-	Makkah	8th Feb	12th Feb	Concluded
2-	Hafr-ul-Batin	5th April	9th April	Concluded
3-	Jeddah	3rd May	7th May	Postponed
4-	Abha	17th May	21st May	Postponed
5-	Qassim	18th Oct	22nd Oct	Postponed
6-	Jeddah	8th Nov	12th Nov	Postponed

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Epi Info-3.5.x Training Portal

Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), Preventive Medicine Department,

Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.