CDC

aid: cdc
name: CDC
description: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a suite of public APIs for accessing disease
  surveillance data, vaccination rates, health statistics, environmental public health tracking, and public health datasets.
  Key offerings include the CDC WONDER API for querying mortality and disease databases, the Open Data API powered by Socrata
  for thousands of datasets across categories such as flu vaccinations, STDs, injury, and NCHS statistics, the Environmental
  Public Health Tracking Network API for environmental health data, and the PHIN VADS vocabulary service for public health
  terminology.
type: Index
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created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Public Health
- Disease Surveillance
- Vaccination
- Health Statistics
- Government
- Open Data
- Environmental Health
- Mortality
- CDC WONDER
apis:
- name: CDC Open Data API
  description: Repository of all available CDC datasets accessible via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Covers categories
    including administrative data, biomonitoring, child vaccinations, flu vaccinations, health statistics, injury and violence,
    NCHS data, NNDSS reportable disease surveillance, pregnancy and vaccination, STDs, smoking and tobacco use, traumatic
    brain injury, and web metrics. Supports JSON, XML, and CSV response formats.
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  humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov
  baseURL: https://data.cdc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Health Statistics
  - Disease Surveillance
  - Vaccination
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://data.cdc.gov/api/docs
  contact:
  - FN: CDC Open Data
    email: info@cdc.gov
- name: CDC WONDER API
  description: The CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) API enables automated data queries in
    XML format over HTTP. Supports access to online databases covering mortality, natality, cancer statistics, AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis,
    sexually transmitted diseases, and environmental health data. Requests are HTTP POST to the WONDER controller endpoint
    with XML parameters; responses are returned as XML.
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  humanURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov
  baseURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest
  tags:
  - Disease Surveillance
  - Mortality
  - Epidemiology
  - Public Health
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/WONDER-API.html
  contact:
  - FN: CDC WONDER
    email: wonder@cdc.gov
- name: CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API
  description: Allows querying of data from the CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. Returns JSON-formatted
    responses covering environmental health indicators such as air quality, water quality, climate data, and their associations
    with health outcomes across the United States.
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  humanURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov
  baseURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apigateway/api/v1
  tags:
  - Environmental Health
  - Air Quality
  - Water Quality
  - Climate
  - Public Health
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apihelp
  contact:
  - FN: CDC Tracking
    email: trackingsupport@cdc.gov
- name: CDC Content Syndication API
  description: Enables CDC to offer web content to other sites and applications. Provides structured access to CDC health
    content including articles, health topics, media, and tools in JSON and XML formats for syndication to third-party websites
    and public health information systems.
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  humanURL: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/docs/info.aspx
  baseURL: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/v2
  tags:
  - Content
  - Health Information
  - Syndication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/docs/info.aspx#response
  contact:
  - FN: CDC Digital Media
    email: cdcinfo@cdc.gov
- name: PHIN VADS API
  description: The Public Health Information Network Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (PHIN VADS) is a web-based
    enterprise vocabulary system for accessing, searching, and distributing vocabularies used in public health and clinical
    care practice. Provides REST access to standardized code sets and value sets used in public health reporting.
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  humanURL: https://phinvads.cdc.gov
  baseURL: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vocabService/v2
  tags:
  - Vocabulary
  - Terminology
  - Standards
  - Public Health
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/developersGuide.action
  contact:
  - FN: PHIN VADS Support
    email: phinvads@cdc.gov
- name: DIBBs eCR Refiner API
  description: CDC DIBBS (Data Integration Building Blocks) electronic Case Reporting (eCR) Refiner API for managing disease
    reporting configurations with customizable code sets. Supports creating and managing reportable condition configurations,
    custom code management, eICR document refinement and simulation, jurisdiction audit logs, and release tracking.
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  humanURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
  baseURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
  tags:
  - Electronic Case Reporting
  - eCR
  - Disease Reporting
  - Public Health
  - DIBBS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/openapi/dibbs-ecr-refiner-openapi.json
  contact:
  - FN: CDCgov DIBBS
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
- name: DIBBs Query Connector API
  description: CDC DIBBS (Data Integration Building Blocks) Query Connector API for executing healthcare data queries against
    FHIR servers using patient identifiers. Accepts FHIR patient resources or HL7v2 messages and returns matching FHIR resources
    from target FHIR servers.
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  humanURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
  baseURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - HL7
  - Healthcare Data
  - Patient Data
  - Public Health
  - DIBBS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/openapi/dibbs-query-connector-openapi.yaml
  contact:
  - FN: CDCgov DIBBS
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
common:
- type: Portal
  url: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/CDCgov
- type: Authentication
  url: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/policies.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html
- type: Licensing
  url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/policies.html#linking
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/json-ld/apis-jsonld.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com