Assessment and Surveillance

Community Assessment: Conducting Focus Groups

This course introduces focus groups as a method to gain valuable community-level data and provide a practical strategy to plan for, conduct, and analyze the results of a focus group.

Woman conducting focus group

Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys

This course introduces concepts and applies knowledge and skills that are essential for planning for and conducting a survey and analyzing and disseminating survey data specifically for the purpose of community assessment.

Survey data on laptop

Community Assessment

In this 45-minute module, participants will learn more about the components of community health assessments including the types of data commonly used.

Man running in community, graphic shows interconnectedness

Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS)

Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) is a distributed network that leverages electronic health record (EHR) data to generate timely prevalence estimates of chronic disease measures at national and local levels; this website contains trainings…

Electronic Health Record Network graphic

eCR – Electronic Case Reporting

Website explaining the benefits and uses for electronic case reporting for disease surveillance.

Electronic Case Reporting Graphic