Illinois Violent Death Reporting System (IVDRS) violence is a public health problem that affects individuals, families, and communities. 2594 Illinois residents died because of homicide or suicide in 2017 – nearly seven violent deaths a day in Illinois. To help find ways to prevent violent deaths, it is crucial that we know the facts. The Illinois Violent Death Reporting System (IVDRS) links us to the who, what, when, where, how, and why violent deaths occur. IVDRS is a part ofThe National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), the only state-based surveillance (reporting) system that pools unique data elements from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. IVDRS covers all types of violent deaths – including homicides and suicides – in all settings for all age groups.

Statewide Unintentional Drug Overdose Death Reporting System (SUDORS) Opioid overdose is a national epidemic that effects individuals, families and communities. In 2016, there were more than 63,600 drug overdose deaths in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. To help find ways to prevent opioid overdose deaths it is important that we know the facts. The Statewide Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) helps us understand emerging trends and factors leading up to the overdose and can be used to develop prevention approaches. SUDORS is a part of Illinois Enhanced State Surveillance of Opioid-Involved Morbidity and Mortality (ESOOS) in partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital (acting as a bona fide agent of IDPH).

The SARS-CoV-2 Global Surveillance Project provides standard surveillance metrics that are useful and allows us to compare regions even though they are limited to more severe cases and suffer from incomplete case ascertainment and data contamination. To address these data limitations, we validated additional novel surveillance metrics of speed, acceleration, and jerk (change in acceleration), 7-Day Lag, 7-Day Persistence effect.