Epidemiology Resources

Information for Healthcare Providers

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Healthcare professionals can find interim guidance (including patient evaluation, reporting, testing, specimen collection, and prevention and control recommendations) on the CDC website: CDC Guidance For Health Professionals

For disease reporting and/or local assistance, see the listing of Texas Disease Reporting Contacts.

• DSHS Testing Algorithm
• DSHS Criteria to Guide Evaluation of Patients Under Investigation (PUI) for 2019-nCoV
• DSHS Interim 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) PUI Form
• CDC Specimen Submission Form (CDC 50.34 HUMAN)

General Information on Diseases

• Disease Surveillance and Control- and Bioterrorism-related Resources
• Texas DSHS - IDCU Topics A-Z
• CDC Health Topics

Epidemiology Health Alert Network (EHAN) -If you are interested in receiving updates, advisories, and alerts, please contact the Epidemiology Program.

Meaningful Use - Public Health Reporting

Epidemiology Health Alert Network (EHAN)

• Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) - Infectious Disease Control Unit (IDCU) Topics A-Z
• Disease Surveillance and Control - and Bioterrorism-related Resources
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Public Health Agencies

Other Local Area Health Departments

• Brazoria County Health Department
• Fort Bend County Department of Health and Human Services
• Galveston County Health District
• Houston Health Department (HHD)
• Montgomery County Health Department
• Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)- Health Service Region 6/5 South

State and Federal

• Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)

Public Health Organizations

• Texas Public Health Association (TPHA)
• Texas Environmental Health Association (TEHA)
• National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
• Association for Professionals in Infections Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
• International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS)