Communicable Disease Control
The Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Team:
- Investigates and responds to cases and outbreaks of notifiable communicable diseases
- Provides expert public health advice, support and training to medical practitioners and other health care workers, residential care, child care services and the general public about communicable disease prevention and control. and the management of outbreaks of communicable diseases
- Contributes to the development and implementation of communicable disease control resources and interventions
Useful Links
- Communicable Disease Control Guidance: provides links to an A-Z of diseases with fact sheets, Public Health Management Guidelines, Notification resources and Case Report forms
- Camp Outbreak Guidelines: prevention and management of gastroenteritis outbreaks
- Staying Healthy: preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services
Last updated: 19 January 2016
