Health, Food & Safety

Surveillance, inspection, and product-safety sources for health monitors and recall-aware prototypes.

Start with a small geography or product class and interpret provisional counts before automating an alert.

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CDC ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index
IntermediateSmall
Census-tract and county social-vulnerability rankings for building emergency planning, outreach, and hazard-equity tools.

First Project: Rank Counties by 2022 Overall SVI

HealthCSV +1No Key
CDC FluView ILINet
BeginnerTiny
Weekly U.S. outpatient influenza-like illness activity for building seasonal respiratory-illness monitoring tools.

First Project: Compare Recent State ILI Activity Levels

HealthJSON +1No Key
CDC NWSS Wastewater Data
BeginnerSmall
Weekly U.S. wastewater viral detections for influenza A and other pathogens for building community-level respiratory-illness monitoring tools.

First Project: Flag Recent Influenza A Wastewater Detections

HealthJSON +1No Key
CDC PLACES
IntermediateSmall
Modeled local health estimates for U.S. counties and smaller areas for building community-health comparisons and resource-planning tools.

First Project: Compare Modeled Diabetes Prevalence across Three Counties

HealthJSON +2No Key
CHR&R 2025 Community Conditions
IntermediateTiny
County Health Rankings 2025 county community-condition measures for building a noncommercial county context comparison.

First Project: Compare County Conditions

HealthJSON +1No Key
CHR&R 2025 Mental Health Supplement
IntermediateTiny
County Health Rankings supplemental county provider counts for building a noncommercial mental-health access comparison.

First Project: Inspect Mental Health Provider Supply

HealthCSVNo Key
ClinicalTrials.gov Study Records
IntermediateSmall
Registered clinical study protocols, locations, recruitment states, and results for building trial finders and research-monitoring tools.

First Project: Find Recruiting Trials for One Condition

HealthJSON +1No Key
CMS Hospital General Information
BeginnerSmall
Medicare-registered hospital locations, characteristics, services, and ratings for building provider comparison and access tools.

First Project: Compare Hospitals within One State

HealthJSON +1No Key
CMS Nursing Home Compare
BeginnerSmall
Medicare-certified nursing home ratings, staffing, and inspection records for building local long-term-care comparison tools.

First Project: Compare Nursing Homes within One State

HealthJSON +1No Key
CMS Open Payments
IntermediateMedium
Manufacturer payments to clinicians and teaching hospitals for building bounded transparency lookups and conflict-check tools.

First Project: Profile General Payments in One State

HealthJSON +1No Key
CPSC Product Recalls
BeginnerTiny
Consumer product recall records for building bounded product-safety lookups and owner-notification tools.

First Project: Summarize First-Quarter Consumer Product Recalls

HealthJSON +1No Key
DailyMed Drug Labels
BeginnerMedium
Structured FDA drug-label (SPL) documents for building label lookup, section-search, and medication-reference tools.

First Project: List Ibuprofen SPL Titles

HealthJSON +2No Key
EPA SDWIS Bulk Submission Archive
IntermediateMedium
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act public-system and violation bulk tables for reproducible compliance analysis.

First Project: Check a SDWIS Submission Quarter

HealthZIP +1No Key
FDA Orange Book
IntermediateTiny
Approved drug products with therapeutic-equivalence, patent, and exclusivity dates for building generic-entry and substitution-research tools.

First Project: Inspect One Brand's Approved Products and Exclusivity

HealthTXT +1No Key
HRSA Area Health Resources Files County Data
BeginnerTiny
HRSA's annually refreshed county health-resource archive for comparing clinician supply and health-system capacity.

First Project: Compare County Clinician Supply

HealthZIP +1No Key
NCHS Provisional Mortality
BeginnerSmall
Weekly provisional U.S. death counts by jurisdiction for building mortality monitors and excess-death research prototypes.

First Project: Chart California Weekly Deaths

HealthJSON +1No Key
NHANES Public Data Files
IntermediateMedium
Cycle-based examination, laboratory, and questionnaire files for building nutrition and health-survey prototypes from public NHANES tables.

First Project: Describe One NHANES Demographics File

HealthXPT +1No Key
NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System
IntermediateMedium
Census of fatal U.S. motor-vehicle crashes for building road-safety maps and fatality-trend monitors.

First Project: Profile One State's Fatal Crashes

HealthCSV +2No Key
NHTSA Vehicle Recalls
BeginnerSmall
Daily vehicle, tire, child-seat, and equipment recall records for building safety lookups, fleet monitors, and owner notification tools.

First Project: Build a Vehicle Recall Lookup

HealthJSON +2No Key
NPPES NPI Registry
BeginnerMedium
Public National Provider Identifier records for building provider-directory lookups and local specialty maps.

First Project: Map Public NPIs in One City

HealthJSON +1No Key
Open Food Facts
BeginnerLarge
Collaborative packaged-food product records for building barcode lookup, label, and nutrition-comparison tools.

First Project: Look Up One Packaged Food by Barcode

HealthJSON +1No Key
openFDA Device Adverse Events
IntermediateSmall
FDA medical-device adverse-event reports for exploring reported device problems and building bounded safety-research tools.

First Project: Summarize Reported Infusion-Pump Problems

HealthJSON +1No Key
openFDA Drug Adverse Events
IntermediateSmall
FDA adverse-event reports for exploring reported drug reactions and building bounded pharmacovigilance research tools.

First Project: Summarize Reported Reactions for One Drug

HealthJSON +1No Key
openFDA Food Enforcement Reports
BeginnerSmall
FDA food-recall enforcement reports for building bounded product-safety monitors and recall-research tools.

First Project: Summarize Class I Food Recalls in One Year

HealthJSON +1No Key
U.S. Cancer Statistics
IntermediateSmall
Official federal cancer incidence and mortality statistics for building state comparison and cancer-burden dashboards.

First Project: Compare State Cancer Incidence Rows

HealthCSV +2No Key
USDA FoodData Central
IntermediateSmall
USDA analytical and branded-food nutrient records for building nutrition comparisons, ingredient research, and food-search products.

First Project: Compare Protein across Lentil Records

HealthJSON +2Key