Oregon Revised Statutes Public Health and Safety § 431.132

(a) Identify and respond to disease outbreaks and epidemics;

(b) Analyze and respond to information related to disease outbreaks and epidemics;

(c) Conduct and assess surveys about health behaviors and practices;

(d) Collect and maintain vital records and statistics;

(e) Process data from a variety of sources, including vital records, health records, hospital data, insurance data and indicators of community or environmental health;

(f) Analyze key indicators of a community's health;

(g) Analyze data related to the causes and burdens of disease, injury, disability and death;

(h) Prioritize and respond to requests for data processed and analyzed as described in this section and communicate the response in a manner that is accurate, statistically valid and usable by the requester;

(i) Identify how disease, injury, disability and death disproportionately affect certain populations, including populations specific to sex, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status;

(j) Conduct a public health modernization assessment and identify priorities arising from that assessment, as required by ORS 431.115 or 431.413; and

(k) Use relevant data to implement, monitor, evaluate and modify state health improvement plans or community health improvement plans.