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 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
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
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
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