Public Health   |   Core Project   |   National

A secure, AI-ready public health data platform enabling real-time disease surveillance, epidemiological research, and trusted sharing of public health data across institutions.

Overview

A joint initiative of ICMR-NIE (National Institute of Epidemiology), the Isaac Centre for Public Health (ICPH, IISc), and CDPG that transforms how public health data is leveraged for outbreak response, research, and policymaking. ADARV lets field epidemiologists analyse outbreak data in hours instead of weeks, without needing external statistical software or specialists.

Partners

ICMR-NIE

Isaac Centre for Public Health
(ICPH)

IISc

CDPG

(data architecture and AI/ML frameworks)

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Objectives

  • Build a secure, interoperable platform for sharing public health and epidemiological data.
  • Enable real-time disease surveillance and outbreak investigation.
  • Support evidence-based public health policymaking with advanced analytics and visualisation.
  • Strengthen India's epidemic intelligence capacity through digital infrastructure.

Key Features

  • Analytics-ready data systems spanning outbreak investigation, surveillance, and partner institution datasets.
  • AI/ML frameworks supporting real-time epidemiological insight generation (time-place-person analysis).
  • Secure, governed data-sharing architecture across institutions, with strict anonymisation of shared health data.
  • Doubles as a public health data warehouse where institutions can upload and share datasets with the wider research community.

Use Cases

Rapid outbreak analysis: during a hepatitis outbreak in Haryana, field data collected in the morning was fully analysed within an hour.

Ongoing outbreak investigation support in Kerala, generating time-place-person insight reports for field teams.

ADARV, a platform for epidemic intelligence in infectious-disease epidemiology, built on the same collaboration.

Cross-institution sharing of surveillance datasets to build a shared ‘commons’ of outbreak intelligence.

Data / Datasets Available

Outbreak-investigation field data, disease-surveillance datasets, and partner-institution epidemiological datasets. Health data is anonymised before sharing; access is limited to verified public-health researchers and institutions rather than open to the public.

Our Role

CDPG contributes data architecture, analytics-ready data systems, and AI/ML frameworks powering the platform’s real-time epidemiological insights.

Impact

Actively used for outbreak investigations (e.g., Haryana hepatitis outbreak, Kerala investigations); positioned as a foundation for India’s epidemic intelligence.