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: kin@apievangelist.com