About us

The Epidemiology and Surveillance Program aims to maintain an effective communicable disease surveillance system for the purpose of minimising 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, Sentinel Practitioners Network Western Australia (SPNWA) database and other communicable diseases databases.

• Analyse infectious disease notification data and prepare reports.

• Contribute de-identified infectious disease notification data to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS).

• Provide a consultancy service on issues related to the epidemiology and surveillance of infectious diseases.