Data and Statistics Research Guide: Epidemiology

CDC uses several surveillance systems to track and monitor reports of foodborne and waterborne diseases in the United States. Most often, information in these systems come from state and local health agencies. Although some of these systems have been used extensively for decades, new surveillance methods have improved the quality, quantity, and timeliness of their data. The surveillance systems described below play a role in detecting and preventing disease and outbreaks.

SRP provides national leadership in the science of cancer surveillance as well as analytical tools and methodological expertise in collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and disseminating reliable population-based cancer statistics.

Within NIOSH, our surveillance research addresses multiple areas of workplace safety and health. Learn more about our surveillance program initiatives and the data we use to complete our studies.

NCBI Pathogen Detection integrates bacterial pathogen genomic sequences originating in food, environmental sources, and patients. It quickly clusters and identifies related sequences to uncover potential food contamination sources, helping public health scientists investigate foodborne disease outbreaks.

Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of public health reports and data systems produced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.