Purpose
An introduction to the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Our mission
Our mission is CDC's mission, to save lives and protect the American people against health threats.
Information technology (IT) plays a critical role in advancing this mission, which is why our vision is putting public health science into action through IT innovation and modernization.
We understand that CDC needs a resilient and strong IT infrastructure as well as emerging capabilities to accomplish its mission.
Priorities
Every industry is going through a digital transformation and governmental public health is no different. Our lens is both strategic and operational. New technologies offer us the ability to increase the speed of our analysis, model data in ways never before conceived, and draw insights that improve and protect the nation's health.
At the same time our imperative is to transform our digital operations by implementing thoroughly modern IT infrastructure, delivering new capabilities and services centered on customer needs and measuring our performance in ways that clearly demonstrate public health impact.
OCIO Projects and Partnerships
CDC Open Technology - open.cdc.gov
Open CDC is a developer community with CDC Open Technology to explore open source data, code and APIs.
Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) - cdc.gov/surveillance/data-modernization/index.html
The ultimate goal of CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) is to get better, faster, actionable insights for decision-making at all levels of public health.