Aim:
To maintain an effective communicable disease surveillance system, and to minimise disease transmission, through timely investigation and response to notified cases and identified outbreaks.
Core functions:
- Maintain the Western Australian Notifiable Infectious Diseases Database (WANIDD), HIV/AIDS database and other communicable diseases databases
- Collect data on 64 diseases that are notifiable in Western Australia, receiving over 10,000 notifications each year
- Work closely with the 11 Public Health Units throughout the State, other programs within Communicable Disease Control Directorate and Environmental Health Services, and the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (External link) (External link)
- Coordinate investigation and control measures in relation to individual cases and identified outbreaks of important communicable diseases
- Coordinate enhanced surveillance schemes of selected notifiable diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, measles, gonorrhoea, hepatitis C, pneumococcal disease, tuberculosis and meningococcal disease
- Analyse and prepare reports on trends in notified communicable diseases in Western Australia, including the production of the Epidemiological information page and Disease WAtch
- Provide a consultancy service to medical practitioners, community health staff, regional Public Health Units and the general public on issues related to the epidemiology of communicable diseases and their prevention and control.
Reports:
Links:
Statutory medical notifications website.
