# Project Tycho API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/project-tycho/  
**Provider:** University of Pittsburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/

Project Tycho API is one of 4 APIs that [University of Pittsburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Health, Epidemiology, and Public Health. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Project Tycho, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, provides standardized global health and epidemiological surveillance data. Its public API supports listing reference variables (conditions, countries, pathogens, geographies) and querying datasets, returning results in CSV and the Project Tycho data format. Use of the API requires a free API key obtained from the user profile after registration.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
- **Signup** — https://www.tycho.pitt.edu

## Other University of Pittsburgh APIs (3)

- [Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/wprdc/)
- [PittAPI (community)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/pittapi/)
- [D-Scholarship@Pitt OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/d-scholarship-oai/)

## Tags

Research Data, Health, Epidemiology, Public Health

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