Surveillance and Statistics Section (SSS)

The Surveillance and Statistics Section (SSS) collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates data from local health jurisdictions around the State on all legally reportable communicable diseases.  SSS also maintains a typhoid carrier registry.  SSS is within the Infectious Diseases Branch of the Division of Communicable Disease Control.

State regulations (CCR, Title 17, Section 2500 et. seq.) require that healthcare providers and laboratories report specified communicable diseases and conditions to the local health department.  These reports are then forwarded to SSS for review and analysis.  SSS provides support and management of the state morbidity and case history report database including statistics on the reportable communicable diseases, foodborne outbreak reports, interstate notifications of cases and lab reports, weekly reports to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, data quality control, and special disease surveillance projects.

The goals of SSS are to conduct and coordinate statewide surveillance of reported communicable diseases in California, maintain a high level of data accuracy and quality, manage and analyze surveillance data to monitor disease burden and to assist in the development of public health policies, and conduct research related to surveillance of communicable diseases.