Unit 00 · Where the data actually lives
Every public health dataset, and how to get at it.
Finding health data is not the hard part. Knowing which source answers your question, how to query it, and what will bite you — that is the hard part. This is our working registry, published openly and kept current automatically.
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AHRQ SDOH Database & Data Tools ahrq-sdoh
AHRQ
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America's Health Rankings americas-health-rankings
United Health Foundation
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CDC / ATSDR
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BRFSS brfss
CDC
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US DOC
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US DOL
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CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking cdc-ephtn
CDC
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CDC FluSight forecast hub flusight-hub
CDC + consortium
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CDC
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CDC PLACES cdc-places
CDC
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CDC WISQARS (injury statistics) cdc-wisqars
CDC
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CDC WONDER cdc-wonder
CDC / NCHS
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US DOE / ORAU
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US Census Bureau
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Census SAHIE / ACS health insurance census-sahie
US Census Bureau
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City Health Dashboard city-health-dashboard
NYU Langone
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CMS Open Payments open-payments
CMS
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CMS Provider Data Catalog (Care Compare) cms-provider-data
CMS
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CMU Library data guide (meta-catalog) cmu-r-data-guide
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
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Commercial/fee sources noted for feasibility answers dartmouth-commercial-note
various
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Commonwealth Fund Health System Data Center commonwealth-fund
Commonwealth Fund
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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps county-health-rankings
UWPHI / RWJF
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Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care dartmouth-atlas
Dartmouth
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Dartmouth Libraries US health data guide (meta-catalog) dartmouth-guide
Dartmouth Libraries
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Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health (NSCH) childhealthdata
CAHMI / HRSA
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data.cdc.gov (Socrata) data-cdc-gov
CDC
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data.cms.gov API data-cms-gov
CMS
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Data.gov health group (meta-catalog) data-gov-health
GSA
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data.medicaid.gov data-medicaid-gov
CMS
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NIH / NCBI
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Duke CTSI population health datasets list (meta-catalog) duke-ctsi-catalog
Duke CTSI
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EPA AQS / AirNow / ECHO epa-air
EPA
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EPA Envirofacts Data Warehouse epa-envirofacts
EPA
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FluView / NREVSS / RESP-NET fluview
CDC
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FRED (St. Louis Fed) fred
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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HCUP / HCUPnet hcup
AHRQ
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HealthData.gov (meta-catalog) healthdata-gov
HHS
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Healthy People 2030 healthy-people-2030
HHS ODPHP
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HHS OCDO
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HRSA Data Warehouse hrsa
HRSA
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IPUMS Health Surveys ipums-health
University of Minnesota
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JHU Welch Library public health data list (meta-catalog) welch-jhu-guide
Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library
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KFF State Health Facts kff-statehealthfacts
KFF
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LTCFocus (nursing home data) ltcfocus
Brown University
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MEPS meps
AHRQ
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NAMCS / NHAMCS (ambulatory care surveys) namcs-nhamcs
CDC / NCHS
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NBER Public Use Data Archive nber-data
NBER
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NHANES nhanes
CDC / NCHS
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NHIS nhis
CDC / NCHS
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NHTSA FARS / crash data nhtsa-fars
US DOT NHTSA
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NIH Data Sharing Repositories catalog (meta-catalog) nih-repositories-catalog
NIH / NLM
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NIH RePORTER v2 nih-reporter
NIH
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NPPES NPI Registry nppes-npi
CMS
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NVSS Mortality/Natality Public Use Files nvss-mortality
CDC / NCHS
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openFDA openfda
FDA
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OSHA enforcement & injury data osha-data
US DOL OSHA
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NLM + public health orgs
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Project Tycho project-tycho
University of Pittsburgh
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ProPublica Data Store (health) propublica-datastore
ProPublica
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Rural Health Information Hub data explorer rural-health-info
HRSA-funded
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RxNorm / RxNav APIs rxnav
NIH / NLM
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SAMHSA
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SEER seer
NCI
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US Cancer Statistics / NPCR uscs-npcr
CDC + NCI
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USDA Food Environment / Food Access Atlas usda-food-atlas
USDA ERS
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USDA FoodData Central usda-fooddata
USDA ARS
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VAERS vaers
CDC / FDA
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YRBSS yrbss
CDC
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ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 clinicaltrials-v2
NIH / NLM
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data.europa.eu (EU Open Data Portal) eu-open-data
European Commission
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DHS Program (Demographic & Health Surveys) dhs-program
ICF
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Dryad dryad
Dryad
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ECDC (EU)
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EU Clinical Trials Register / CTIS eu-ctr-ctis
EMA
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Europe PMC europe-pmc
EMBL-EBI
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Eurostat health statistics eurostat-health
European Commission
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FAIRsharing (meta-catalog) fairsharing
University of Oxford
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FAOSTAT faostat
FAO
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Figshare figshare
Digital Science
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FinnGen summary statistics finngen
University of Helsinki + partners
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GISAID gisaid
GISAID Initiative
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Tufts University
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UC Berkeley / MPIDR / INED
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UN OCHA
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WHO IARC
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University of Michigan
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IHME Global Burden of Disease / GHDx ihme-gbd
IHME (Univ. of Washington)
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Nextstrain nextstrain
Fred Hutch / Univ. Basel
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NHS England open data (ex-NHS Digital) nhs-england
NHS England
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NHS Business Services Authority
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NLM Dataset Catalog (meta-catalog) nlm-dataset-catalog
NIH / NLM
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OECD Health Statistics oecd-health
OECD
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OpenAIRE Graph (meta-catalog) openaire
OpenAIRE AMKE
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OpenPrescribing openprescribing
Bennett Institute, Oxford
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Our World in Data owid
Global Change Data Lab
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Pan American Health Organization
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PubMed E-utilities / PMC OA pubmed-eutils
NIH / NLM
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re3data.org (meta-catalog) re3data
re3data consortium
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UK Biobank uk-biobank
UK Biobank Ltd
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UK ONS uk-ons
UK Office for National Statistics
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UN Data / UNSD un-data
United Nations Statistics Division
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UNICEF Data Warehouse unicef-data
UNICEF
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WHO data collections index (meta-catalog) who-collections
WHO
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WHO data.who.int (dashboards incl. COVID) who-data-hub
WHO
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WHO Global Health Estimates who-ghe
WHO
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WHO Global Health Observatory who-gho
WHO
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WHO Global TB Programme data who-tb
WHO
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WHO ICD API (ICD-10/11) who-icd-api
WHO
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WHO ICTRP trial registry who-ictrp
WHO
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WHO Immunization Data portal (WUENIC) who-immunization
WHO / UNICEF
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WHO Mortality Database who-mortality-db
WHO
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World Bank health indicators (WDI/HNP) world-bank-health
World Bank
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World Bank Microdata Library world-bank-microdata
World Bank
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Zenodo zenodo
CERN / OpenAIRE
No source matches those filters.
What the access tiers mean
OPEN-API Queryable API, automatable end to end. 54 sources.
BULK-DOWNLOAD Files to download and parse locally. 36 sources.
AGGREGATE-ONLY Published aggregates only — no record-level access. 18 sources.
RESTRICTED Knowledge-only. Requires application/DUA; we never automate access. 6 sources.