It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the website of the Epidemiology Unit. Epidemiology Unit is the premier disease surveillance unit in the Ministry of Health Sri Lanka. The goal of our Unit is to improve the health of the Sri Lankan population by collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of best possible information on infectious diseases prevalent in the country. This is achieved mainly through surveillance, epidemiological investigation, research and training.

In routine activities regarding control and prevention of communicable diseases and especially in investigating disease outbreaks, the Unit collaborates very closely with the Ministry of Health and other health service providers in the country and also with organizations in other countries to ensure that up to date information and technology is available to contribute to an effective outcome.

I greatly appreciate the inputs provided by my team members and by present as well as past colleagues in the Unit in developing and updating this web site. I am also grateful to the public health field staff in the country which is the back bone of all our services.

Information on all the communicable diseases handled by the Unit is provided in the web site including details on special programs and disease outbreaks and also disease alerts.

I hope the information available in this website will be useful to you and I look forward for your comments and suggestions to further improve the web site.