KDCA Expands Access to Infectious Disease Big Data for the Private Sector: Promoting Research Through Data-Sharing and Collaboration

- KDCA offers customized data to the public via the Infectious Diseases Portal (dportal.kdca.go.kr).

- Data will be made available to the public through various channels, including a statistics dashboard and Open API.

Osong, 10th January 2025 – The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has taken a significant step in enhancing data accessibility for the private sector, enabling researchers to access requested data through its Infectious Disease Big Data Platform.

Launched in June 2024, this platform supports the KDCA and local governments in disease control and prevention by providing automated statistical data and customized analyses.

Since 2022, the KDCA, in collaboration with the National Health Insurance Service (K-COV-N), has made COVID-19 data publicly available. Furthermore, the agency has developed its own open data system, offering datasets on 64 infectious diseases under comprehensive routine surveillance, excluding tuberculosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). These datasets include:
• 17 Class 1 infectious diseases
• 20 Class 2 infectious diseases
• 27 Class 3 infectious diseases


- Refer to the attached file for details.