Effective Practice, Informatics & Quality Improvement (EPIQ) is an informal collaboration of academics and practitioners teaching and working in the fields of evidence-based practice, health informatics and quality improvement at the University of Auckland. EPIQ was established in 2002 to facilitate the teaching and application of effective (evidence-based) practice, health informatics and quality improvement initiatives in the health and disability support sectors, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Over the past decade EPIQ has increasingly become a repository of teaching and learning tools to help students and practitioners develop their skills in evidence-based practice, with less emphasis on informatics and quality improvement. The resources on this website are based around a simple graphic called the GATE (Graphic Approach To Epidemiology) frame that we have developed.