How We Will Do It: Helping to Achieve the Public Health Data Strategy Goals and Milestones

Increase engagement and collaboration with:​

• STLTs: Collaborate on and continually provide feedback on progress towards key 2-year milestones (e.g., DUAs, reusable technologies); engage directly with STLTs to understand priority needs​
• Providers and labs: Gather feedback from the frontlines on how CDC can better support progress towards 2-year milestones​
• CDC: Establish internal steering committee to provide guidance on longer term PHDS, monitor and provide input on progress; establish mechanisms to solicit programmatic input and identify priority needs​
• Private partners: Organize Industry Days and promote data exchange pilots to work toward modernization together​
• Federal agency partners: Collaborate with partners such as ONC and CMS to advance shared understanding of activities needed to support 2-year milestones, including TEFCA for public health​

Ensure accountability for the Public Health Data Goals sits with CDC’s Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST):

• Structure the organization to support core public health missions
• Identify owners within OPHDST and across the agency to drive progress for specific 2-year milestones
• Update the agency regularly on Public Health Data Strategy goals and milestones