Epidemiological design and sampling
Population and study-unit definition, sampling strategy, frequency, follow-up and interpretation criteria.
Consulting
The problem defines the method.
EPISUIS does not start from predefined packages. Each engagement is structured around the question, system scale, available information and the decisions that need to be supported.
What a project may integrate
Health, production, diagnostics, territory and time within the same question.
Design + samplingRisk + biosecurityDiagnostics + sequencesProduction + monitoring
Capabilities
Different tools for different questions.
These are not separate packages. Capabilities are combined according to the problem and can support anything from a focused technical question to a larger multi-unit project.
Risk analysis and biosecurity
Associated factors, exposure patterns, critical points and heterogeneity across farms or production systems.
Diagnostics and molecular epidemiology
Integration of PCR, serology, sequence data, phylogeny and other diagnostic information within its epidemiological context.
Production and performance
Integration of production information to identify patterns, variation, critical points and relationships with health outcomes.
Spatial and network analysis
Geographic distribution, links among units, flows, clusters and the territorial structure of health problems.
Data, visualization and applied systems
Data cleaning and structuring, analysis, maps, dashboards and digital workflows when methodology needs to become a reproducible operation.
Process
Design, execution and interpretation within one workflow.
Understand
Define the problem, the decisions involved, the population and the scale of work.
Design and structure
Determine what information is needed, how it should be generated, how often, and how traceability will be preserved.
Execute and analyze
When required, structure capture, follow-up and diagnostics; then integrate the data and apply the appropriate analytical methods.
Interpret and transfer
Turn results into conclusions, strategies, protocols, structured datasets, visualizations or tools that can continue to be used.
Decisions we can help support
Epidemiology becomes valuable when it improves decisions.
Animal health
Vaccination strategies, surveillance, biosecurity, diagnostic follow-up and prioritization of health problems.
Production
Identification of critical points, interpretation of performance indicators and assessment of variation across farms or time periods.
Epidemiology
Sampling design, population definition, monitoring frequency and evaluation of patterns or risk factors.
Organizations and regions
Collective health programs, territorial characterization, cluster identification, production networks and regional strategies.
Projects and collaborations
Methodological design, epidemiological operations, information integration and analysis for institutional, multi-unit, national or international projects.
Deliverables
The final output depends on the problem that needs to be solved.
Question
- What is happening?
- Where is it concentrated?
- Which factors are related?
- How does it change over time?
- What information is missing?
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Technical work
- Epidemiological design
- Data generation and integration
- Statistical or spatial analysis
- Diagnostic or molecular interpretation
- Monitoring and traceability
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Useful output
- Technical report or interpretation
- Risk map or profile
- Surveillance or sampling design
- Structured dataset
- Visualization or applied tool
First contact
You do not need to arrive with the methodology already solved.
Tell us what is happening, what information exists and what your team needs to understand or decide. From there, we can determine whether EPISUIS can contribute and what scope makes sense.