{
  "name": "cdc-health-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · CDC Public Health Data (data.cdc.gov, PLACES, NHSN) MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "Live CDC public-health data from data.cdc.gov: search the CDC open-data catalog, read any dataset's schema and run SoQL queries on it (NNDSS, vaccination coverage, NWSS wastewater, overdose, mortality and more), PLACES local chronic-disease and health-risk estimates for counties, places, census tracts and ZCTAs (lookup and ranking), and NHSN weekly hospital respiratory data (COVID-19, influenza and RSV admissions, bed and ICU occupancy) by state, HHS region and nation.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Public Health & SDOH",
  "datasets": [
    "PH-01",
    "PH-02",
    "WF-07"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://cdc-health.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/cdc-health-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "CDC open data portal data.cdc.gov (Socrata SODA API and Discovery API): PLACES 2025 release, NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data, and every other public data.cdc.gov dataset",
    "url": "https://data.cdc.gov",
    "license": "U.S. Government work, public domain",
    "refresh": "live (3 h edge cache); upstream weekly to annual"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "cdc_discover_datasets",
      "title": "Search the data.cdc.gov catalog",
      "description": "Searches the CDC open-data catalog (data.cdc.gov, ~1,500 public datasets: NNDSS notifiable diseases, vaccination coverage, NWSS wastewater, overdose deaths, NCHS mortality, PLACES, NHSN, BRFSS summaries and more) by keyword, category or tag. Returns dataset ids (for cdc_get_dataset_schema / cdc_query_dataset), names, descriptions, last data update and column count (field names on request)."
    },
    {
      "name": "cdc_get_dataset_schema",
      "title": "Get a data.cdc.gov dataset schema",
      "description": "Returns a data.cdc.gov dataset's name, description, category, tags, row-update time and columns (SoQL field name, data type, display name, description). Use the field names in cdc_query_dataset."
    },
    {
      "name": "cdc_query_dataset",
      "title": "Run a SoQL query on a data.cdc.gov dataset",
      "description": "Runs a SoQL query (select / where / group / having / order / limit / offset, or full-text q) on any data.cdc.gov dataset and returns the rows. Use for NNDSS weekly tables, vaccination coverage, wastewater, overdose, NCHS mortality, NHSN and any other CDC dataset; get field names from cdc_get_dataset_schema first. Example: datasetId ua7e-t2fy, select 'weekendingdate, jurisdiction, totalconfflunewadm', where \"jurisdiction='NY'\", order 'weekendingdate DESC', limit 8."
    },
    {
      "name": "places_get_measures",
      "title": "Get CDC PLACES estimates for a location",
      "description": "Returns CDC PLACES (2025 release) model-based estimates (crude and age-adjusted prevalence with 95% confidence limits, population) of chronic disease, health risk behaviors, prevention, disability and health-related social needs for a county, place (city/town), census tract or ZCTA. Look up by FIPS/ZCTA id or by name within a state. 40 measures, e.g. OBESITY, DIABETES, CASTHMA, CSMOKING, ACCESS2 (uninsured 18-64), DEPRESSION, FOODINSECU."
    },
    {
      "name": "places_rank_locations",
      "title": "Rank locations on a CDC PLACES measure",
      "description": "Ranks counties, places, census tracts or ZCTAs on a CDC PLACES (2025 release) measure, within a state (or a county, for tracts) or nationally, highest or lowest first. Default value type: age-adjusted for county/place, crude for tract/zcta. Returns rank, location, value with 95% CI and population, plus the number of locations ranked."
    },
    {
      "name": "nhsn_get_hospital_respiratory",
      "title": "NHSN weekly hospital respiratory data",
      "description": "Returns CDC NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data weekly metrics by jurisdiction (state/territory, HHS Region 1-10, or USA): new confirmed COVID-19, influenza and RSV admissions (counts and per 100k), hospitalized and ICU patients, inpatient and ICU bed capacity and occupancy, hospitals reporting, and season-to-date totals. Defaults to the last 8 weeks and a compact metric set."
    },
    {
      "name": "cdc_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe the CDC data sources",
      "description": "Explains this server's sources (data.cdc.gov catalog and SODA API, CDC PLACES 2025 release, NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data), the PLACES measure ids, NHSN metric names, SoQL tips, limits and what is not covered (CDC WONDER)."
    }
  ]
}