Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scores 41.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
CDC Socrata Open Data API (data.cdc.gov)
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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