Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
tags:
  - CDC
  - Environmental Health
  - Epidemiology
  - Federal Government
  - Healthcare
  - Open Data
  - Public Health
  - Socrata
  - Surveillance
  - WONDER
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-04-23'
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: >-
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the United States'
  national public health agency, part of the Department of Health and Human
  Services. CDC operates a broad portfolio of public APIs and open data
  services including the Socrata-powered data.cdc.gov (Open Data API for
  hundreds of COVID-19, chronic disease, environmental health, immunization,
  injury, and mortality datasets), the WONDER online query databases for
  mortality, natality, and cancer statistics, the PLACES / BRFSS and
  Environmental Public Health Tracking Network APIs, the Content Syndication
  platform, and the open.cdc.gov developer portal that indexes these
  resources for civic technologists and public-health researchers.
apis:
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-socrata-open-data-api
    name: CDC Socrata Open Data API (data.cdc.gov)
    tags:
      - Chronic Disease
      - COVID-19
      - Datasets
      - Open Data
      - SODA
      - Socrata
      - Surveillance
    humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov/
    baseURL: https://data.cdc.gov/resource/
    properties:
      - url: https://data.cdc.gov/
        type: Website
      - url: https://dev.socrata.com/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
        type: Reference
      - url: https://dev.socrata.com/consumers/getting-started.html
        type: GettingStarted
      - url: https://evergreen.data.socrata.com/signup
        type: SignUp
    description: >-
      The CDC Socrata Open Data API (SODA) provides programmatic JSON, CSV,
      and GeoJSON access to hundreds of data.cdc.gov datasets covering
      COVID-19 case surveillance, vaccination coverage, excess deaths, flu
      surveillance, PRAMStat, PLACES small-area estimates, environmental
      public health tracking, and chronic disease indicators. Supports
      SoQL filtering, aggregation, pagination, and authenticated app tokens
      for higher rate limits.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-wonder-api
    name: CDC WONDER API
    tags:
      - Cancer
      - Mortality
      - Natality
      - Query Database
      - Statistics
    humanURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov/
    baseURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/
    properties:
      - url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/
        type: Website
      - url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/WONDER-API.html
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/faq.html
        type: FAQ
    description: >-
      CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) is a
      suite of public-use ad-hoc query databases covering underlying and
      multiple cause of death, natality, cancer statistics, tuberculosis,
      STDs, vaccine adverse events, and environmental health indicators.
      WONDER exposes an XML-based HTTP API that accepts parameter documents
      and returns aggregate statistics suitable for epidemiologic research.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-places-api
    name: CDC PLACES / 500 Cities API
    tags:
      - BRFSS
      - Census Tract
      - Chronic Disease
      - Health Indicators
      - Small Area Estimation
    humanURL: https://www.cdc.gov/places/
    baseURL: https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/resource/
    properties:
      - url: https://www.cdc.gov/places/
        type: Website
      - url: https://www.cdc.gov/places/methodology/
        type: Methodology
      - url: https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/
        type: OpenData
    description: >-
      PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates) provides
      model-based small-area estimates for chronic disease risk factors,
      health outcomes, and prevention practices for counties, ZCTAs, census
      tracts, and places across the United States. Data is available via
      the Socrata chronicdata.cdc.gov portal as JSON, CSV, and GeoJSON
      endpoints.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-ephtn-api
    name: CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API
    tags:
      - Air Quality
      - Environmental Health
      - Exposure
      - GIS
      - Water Quality
    humanURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apihelp
    baseURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov:443/apigateway/api/v1
    properties:
      - url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/
        type: Website
      - url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apihelp
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/DataExplorer/
        type: Explorer
    description: >-
      The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API provides a REST
      interface over the National Tracking Network's JSON-formatted data
      for air quality, water quality, climate and health, childhood lead
      poisoning, asthma, cancer, and other environmental health indicators
      at national, state, and county levels.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-content-syndication
    name: CDC Public Health Media Library (Content Syndication)
    tags:
      - Content Syndication
      - Health Content
      - Media
      - Multimedia
    humanURL: https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/
    properties:
      - url: https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/
        type: Website
      - url: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/v2/resources/media
        type: Reference
      - url: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/docs/info.aspx
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The CDC Public Health Media Library Content Syndication API lets
      developers and partner sites programmatically retrieve CDC health
      content (articles, infographics, videos, widgets, images, and
      microsites) in multiple formats to embed on third-party properties
      with automatic update propagation.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:open-cdc-apis-index
    name: CDC Open Technology API Index
    tags:
      - Developer Portal
      - Directory
      - Open Technology
    humanURL: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
    properties:
      - url: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
        type: Website
      - url: https://open.cdc.gov/
        type: Portal
      - url: https://github.com/CDCgov
        type: GitHubOrganization
    description: >-
      open.cdc.gov is CDC's Open Technology landing site that indexes the
      agency's public APIs, open-source GitHub repositories, and open data
      assets, serving as a catalog entry point for developers seeking CDC
      interfaces across programs and centers.
  - aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:cdc-tb-nndss-socrata
    name: CDC NNDSS / MMWR Socrata Data
    tags:
      - MMWR
      - NNDSS
      - Notifiable Disease
      - Surveillance
    humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov/browse?category=NNDSS
    properties:
      - url: https://data.cdc.gov/browse?category=NNDSS
        type: Catalog
      - url: https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/
        type: Program
      - url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/nndss/nndss_table_menus.asp
        type: Tables
    description: >-
      The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and
      Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) tables are published as
      Socrata datasets on data.cdc.gov, providing weekly and historical
      case counts for notifiable conditions accessible via SoQL and bulk
      download.
common:
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/
  - type: OpenData
    url: https://data.cdc.gov/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://open.cdc.gov/
  - type: APIs
    url: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov
  - type: WONDER
    url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/
  - type: Socrata
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/
  - type: ContentSyndication
    url: https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/
  - type: EPHTN
    url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html
  - type: Integrations
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/partners/about/index.html
integrations:
  - name: For Everyone
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]