# Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/  
**Website:** https://www.cdc.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 32.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 54.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 29.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **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...
- **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SODA v2.1 API** — Stable Socrata Open Data API used for the majority of data.cdc.gov queries.
- **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SODA v3 API** — Next-generation query and export endpoints.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Plans Pricing**

## Tags

CDC, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Federal-Government, Healthcare, Open Data, Public Health, Socrata, Surveillance, WONDER

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.