Rapid Inquiry Facility

The Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) is a freely available software application that supports two types of environmental health activities: disease mapping studies and risk analysis studies. It was designed to help epidemiologists and public health researchers to rapidly investigate potential environmental hazards, especially those related to industrial sites. The tool uses health, environmental, socioeconomic, population and geographic data to calculate risks in relation to sources of exposure and to generate maps. The software has been principally developed at the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, which is a part of Imperial College. The tool has been made available under the GPL v3.0 open source software license