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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention.png
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.
- aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-soda-v2-1-api
  name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SODA v2.1 API
  description: Stable Socrata Open Data API used for the majority of data.cdc.gov queries.
  humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov/
  baseURL: https://data.cdc.gov/resource/
  tags:
  - SODA v2.1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-soda-v2-1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention:centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-soda-v3-api
  name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SODA v3 API
  description: Next-generation query and export endpoints.
  humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov/
  baseURL: https://data.cdc.gov/resource/
  tags:
  - SODA v3
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-soda-v3-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-authentication.yml
- 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