One CDC Data Platform

What 1CDP Does

With 1CDP, CDC is accelerating a transition from siloed, redundant data systems and tools to a common platform with shared and integrated data available that informs public health actions. 1CDP is designed to improve lives, protect health, and empower public health programs.

• Provides data for action: 1CDP gives public health professionals more data at their fingertips. It brings together separate data systems, making data easy to access and use. Timely, high-quality data supports better disease detection, public health surveillance, response, day-to-day science, and decision-making.

• Reduces time and staff burden: 1CDP gives public health experts access to ready-to-use data and tools so they can focus on the science instead of spending hours performing manual tasks, like cleaning and preparing data.

• Increases efficiency and sustainability: With 1CDP, CDC programs share tools and solutions instead of each program building and maintaining their own parts. This approach limits duplicative work and saves time. Plus, public health dollars can be used more efficiently to support action to improve lives.

• Fosters innovation: 1CDP connects CDC with the latest technologies in data science, including integrated large language models. Users can securely and responsibly use these technologies to address public health issues.

• Promotes secure collaboration: 1CDP streamlines processes for data visibility and exchange while maintaining the sensitivity and confidentiality of data. This enables easier and faster collaboration among CDC programs and public health partners, especially during responses.

Learn more about how CDC protects data and ensures responsible use through 1CDP's security, privacy, and protection policies.

1CDP Capabilities

1CDP capabilities span the data lifecycle — from data collection to data sharing. These tools and services support everyday program needs and public health response work. This includes robust early warning capabilities and situational awareness.

The platform's foundational capabilities include:

• Data collection and ingestion
• Data preparation and cleaning
• Data analytics and visualization
• Data dissemination and reporting

1CDP also provides reusable capabilities and enterprise applications. These tools, workflows, templates, and applications address common needs for 1CDP users and programs. They guide how users access and maintain datasets, collaborate with internal and external partners, and access technical support, allowing users to:

• Upload and validate large amounts of data from jurisdictions quickly using CSV files.
• Easily collect and share case information during an outbreak.
• Leverage text messaging capabilities to track health threats.
• Request access to validated, registered datasets in one centralized place.
• Ask for assistance and track the status of requests.

Within the platform, there is a suite of shared services, tools, workflows, and products dedicated solely to public health event and emergency response — known as Response Ready Enterprise Data Integration (RREDI).

1CDP In Action

Below are a few examples of 1CDP's early successes.

• AI boosts CDC's foodborne outbreak response: CDC created the Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Tool within 1CDP, which uses AI to automate the extraction, standardization, categorization, and analysis of food purchases by people who are sick. Completing those tasks used to take hours. Now, data are ready in less than 10 minutes. This can lead to faster public health messaging and recalls and fewer people exposed to contaminated products.
• Improved lab data for action: 1CDP takes in new, timely laboratory result data to inform public health actions. In 2025, CDC staff and public health partners gained access to daily laboratory result data from five large laboratory groups. These data give CDC and its partners a clearer picture of illnesses that affect communities across America. With these data, public health staff can respond faster to health threats and protect lives.
• Launched a text message tool for outbreak response: The Marburg response team used RREDI tools to deploy and begin data exchange with state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) partners in record time. From this effort, 1CDP established a reusable capability for ongoing public health surveillance and response. Learn more about how the text messaging data was used.
• 1CDP Data Marketplace: Launched internally in November 2025, the 1CDP Data Marketplace streamlines data access while enhancing analytical capabilities within CDC. Data Marketplace is a centralized hub where enterprise datasets are made available for CDC users to discover, explore, and request access to use the data in 1CDP modules. With Data Marketplace, users no longer need to identify exact source systems and track down associated data owners to gain access to the data they need. Instead, they can browse, add items (data) to a cart, check out, and track delivery. Data stewards review incoming data requests and provision access based on the use case, ensuring the right data reaches the right users while maintaining standards for data security and compliance.

What's Next

To build and scale CDC's unified data platform, the 1CDP team is focused on enhancing the foundation, refining and optimizing operations, and scaling sustainably. Over the coming years, the 1CDP team will expand the platform's existing data and capabilities. Throughout the development process, CDC will work closely with internal programs and external STLT partners to understand data issues and needs. CDC will also provide regular updates, organize listening sessions to gather feedback from users, and use this input to ensure 1CDP enables frontline staff to improve public health responses.