Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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
CDC Socrata Open Data API (data.cdc.gov)
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 co...
CDC WONDER API
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, cance...
CDC PLACES / 500 Cities API
PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates) provides model-based small-area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and prevention practices ...
CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API
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 a...
CDC Public Health Media Library (Content Syndication)
The CDC Public Health Media Library Content Syndication API lets developers and partner sites programmatically retrieve CDC health content (articles, infographics, videos, widge...
CDC Open Technology API Index
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...
CDC NNDSS / MMWR Socrata Data
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...