Enhancements Project

Advancing Data Analytics for Improved HIV Surveillance Outcomes

The Enhancements Project represents a strategic partnership between Georgetown University and multiple public health jurisdictions aimed at revolutionizing data analytics to significantly improve the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of HIV surveillance data. This collaborative initiative has already delivered several key innovations to HIV surveillance data sharing, including sophisticated updates to matching algorithms, improved residential address tracking, implementation of duplicate status review capabilities, enhanced multiple-name matching, and vital status verification through multiple death data sources.

Current efforts focus on expanding the system’s capabilities to generate real-time care continuum information, enabling on-demand matching with both internal health department data sources and external systems. The project team is also enhancing the ATra Black Box’s analytic capacity to respond to real-time queries, creating a more responsive and dynamic tool for public health decision-making. These advancements collectively strengthen the foundation for data-driven HIV prevention and treatment strategies across participating jurisdictions.

To learn more about this groundbreaking project, you can contact Anne Rhodes, Director of the Health Data Analytics Program at anne.rhodes@georgetown.edu.