Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Black Box project
Secure De-duplication Tool for HIV Surveillance
The CDC Black Box project empowers public health jurisdictions nationwide to enhance their HIV surveillance and prevention activities through Georgetown’s ATra® infrastructure. Building on successful NIH and CDC pilot programs that initially connected DC, MD, VA, and later expanded to eight East Coast jurisdictions, this secure platform enables rapid data exchange for persons with HIV while adhering to the highest security and confidentiality standards.
By facilitating this protected information sharing, the project significantly improves the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of both local and national HIV surveillance data—metrics crucial for evaluating progress on key health outcomes and national indicators for the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
“Maryland was able to resolve approximately 20% of their original 2018 CIDR List via PS18-1805 Black Box. This represents a potential savings of approximately 258 staff hours.”
“High proportion of accepted matches found to be the same as at the end of the CIDR evaluation period: 97.0% for Exact, 94.6% for Extremely High”
To date, 40 jurisdictions have established data sharing agreements with Georgetown and actively participate in these critical de-duplication activities.
For more information about this project, please contact Anne Rhodes, Director of the Health Data Analytics Program: anne.rhodes@georgetown.edu.