Everything you need for the five-day sprint — curated data sources, API endpoints, and documentation to help your team detect emerging health threats before they escalate.
Curated open data covering disease surveillance, travel patterns, environmental conditions, and humanitarian indicators. All sources are freely accessible.
Real-time travel health notices, outbreak alerts by destination, and disease-specific advisories. Useful for mapping geographic risk zones and correlating travel patterns with outbreak signals.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travelWeekly influenza-like illness surveillance data from outpatient networks, hospitals, and labs. Includes regional breakdowns, positivity rates, and historic time-series going back to 1997.
cdc.gov/fluview/interactivePan American Health Organization's open data platform covering disease incidence, vaccination coverage, and outbreak indicators across 52 countries in the Americas. Queryable by disease, country, and year with JSON and CSV outputs.
paho.org/dataGlobal airline route networks, seat capacity by route, and historic flight schedules. Essential for modelling pandemic spread pathways and calculating cross-border exposure risk from infectious regions.
github.com/jpatokal/openflightsTemperature, precipitation, humidity, and NDVI data correlated with mosquito and tick habitat suitability. Use to model Aedes aegypti range, dengue/West Nile seasonality, and climate-driven vector risk.
earthdata.nasa.govUN-backed open platform with health, population, infrastructure, and crisis datasets from 250+ organisations. Covers displacement, cholera outbreaks, vaccination coverage, and health facility maps by country.
data.humdata.orgWHO's open data repository covering mortality, morbidity, immunisation, and disease-specific indicators across 194 member states. Queryable via REST API with JSON and CSV outputs.
who.int/data/ghoOne of the world's oldest infectious disease outbreak reporting systems. Curated outbreak reports submitted by a global network of experts, available via RSS and data API for real-time signal mining.
promedmail.org2+ billion species occurrence records including vectors, reservoir hosts, and wildlife. Critical for One Health modelling — map where disease reservoirs overlap with human populations and climate shifts.
gbif.org/developerJust launched by ECDC (May 2026), Episomer monitors Bluesky social media posts by time, place, and topic to detect early signals of public health threats. Successor to epitweetr, it includes an interactive web app for signal detection and alert review. Freely available as an open-source R package.
ecdc.europa.eu/episomerEpicore provides structured data on verified public health events globally. Query closed events by date range and receive machine-readable JSON with outbreak details, source references, and verification outcomes.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| event_id | string | RFI ID as a string |
| title | string | RFI title describing the health event |
| description | string / null | Always null in current implementation |
| create_date | string | RFI creation date — format DD-Mon-YYYY (e.g. 15-Jan-2025) |
| action_date | string | Closure date — format DD-Mon-YYYY |
| outcome | string | Verification outcome: VP (Verified Positive), VN (Verified Negative), UP (Update) |
| phe_description | string | Public health event description (e.g. "Cholera") |
| phe_additional | string | Additional public health event context |
| source | string | Source type code: OR, MR, or OC |
| source_details | string | Source URL or description |
| iso_action_date | string | Closure date in ISO format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS |
| event_id_int | integer | RFI ID as an integer |
| country | string | Full country name where the event occurred |