Consultant - One Health Data and Systems Mapping

⁠⁠⁠The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (the Department) is in the process of establishing an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC), with interim operation to commence in early 2024. This process will involve transitioning the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Group staff and other impacted staff across the Department into this interim CDC by 1 January 2024 and ultimately into a standalone entity following the passage of legislation.

As part of the CDC expansion into the One Health space, it is required to understand and scope what datasets and systems there are around the country that could contribute to the CDC to perform its core functions. The One Health data and systems sub-project to map these datasets and systems will be able to fill that knowledge gap which currently exists.

Purpose

The Department requires a service provider to undertake this project to inform the CDC on this knowledge gap. This procurement will involve the following activities:

1. Engaging with key internal and external stakeholders to identify data and systems which can contribute to the core One Health functions of the Australian CDC.
2. Leverage internal and external subject matter experts to identify One Health data and systems which can contribute to the core One Health functions of the Australian CDC.
3. Provide a gap analysis on the current system state and what is missing to achieve the core CDC functions.
4. Advise senior government officials by recommending which datasets will address the gaps in point 3.
5. Recommend technical methods on the best way to ingest these data and systems.
6. Recommend governance mechanisms to ingest these data.

Without this procurement being completed, it is highly likely an important dataset or system will not be identified, and key business functions would be impacted. As part of this sub-project, recommendations will be made to either incorporate these data sets into the CDC itself or form a linkage between the CDC and the governing entity or the identified dataset.

A follow-on piece of work will establish agreements with those identified entities to store or access the data within those systems. This data is planned to be accessible with the capstone project of a new National Surveillance System (NSS).

It is expected this piece of work to begin in early September 2023 and conclude by the end of March 2024.