Welcome

The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd (ESR) under contract with the Ministry of Health (MoH) contributes to the national public health surveillance effort.

This website provides access to selected New Zealand public health surveillance data and information.

We welcome the use of this surveillance data with the following acknowledgement, New Zealand surveillance data provided by ESR, funded by the Ministry of Health with the cooperation of the diagnostic laboratories.

Ministry of Health support enables ESR to provide some specific additional work, prioritised on the basis of national benefit and we are happy to collaborate with funded projects to mine the surveillance data.

Public Health Surveillance

ESR coordinates and collates information for several national surveillance systems. More

	Surveillance Reports Surveillance reports are available for notifiable diseases, influenza, sexually transmitted infections and chemical injuries.

	Antimicrobial Resistance The Antibiotic Reference Laboratory at ESR is responsible for the national surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among human pathogens. More

	Virological Surveillance ESR public health virology laboratory collates, analyses and reports all year round laboratory-based virological surveillance. More

	Enteric Reference Laboratory The Enteric Reference Laboratory is responsible for the confirmation of isolates of the following notifiable diseases Salmonellae, Shigellae, Vibrio cholerae O1 and VTEC. More

	Environmental Health Indicators The Environmental Health Indicators (EHIs) project was commissioned by the Ministry of Health to develop a functional core set of environmental health indicators for New Zealand. More

	EpiSurv Case report forms and instructions for notifiable diseases in EpiSurv, New Zealand's primary notifiable disease database. More

	LabSurv A national messaging system for Direct Laboratory Notification of notifiable disease. More