DC Cohort Project
Automating Data Exchange to Enhance HIV Care and Research in Washington, DC
Our Office is collaborating with George Washington University to revolutionize data sharing between the DC Cohort—a comprehensive longitudinal study tracking over 19,000 consenting patients receiving HIV prevention services or care across 15 medical sites in the DC Metro area—and the DC Department of Health. This initiative automates critical data exchange processes while ensuring that updated medical care information and other key metrics flow seamlessly to both the DC Cohort Coordinating Center at GW and the DC Department of Health.
Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) [1R24AI152598-01] of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this project aims to significantly improve the quality of care and treatment for people accessing HIV prevention and care services throughout the District of Columbia. The collaboration enables comprehensive evaluation of HIV prevention and care services, monitors socio-demographic data and treatment regimens over time, and provides clinics with crucial benchmarking reports to enhance their standards of care.
The project’s scientific objectives extend beyond data management to contribute valuable knowledge about HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, examine resistance patterns, assess the impact of co-morbidities, and advance research on emerging issues in HIV care. This initiative focuses primarily on major publicly-funded, government and academic medical center HIV clinics, creating a vital resource that facilitates additional HIV research while helping identify patients for targeted research studies.