The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health body will impede efforts to control the global spread of diseases and could pu

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

The interim director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management responds to a recent critical op-ed published in STAT.

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, a process that requires a one-year notice period as set out in a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress.

D ONALD TRUMP has once again set his sights on the World Health Organisation ( WHO ). On January 20th America’s newly inaugurated president signed an executive order signalling that his country would withdraw from the UN agency. The order cites the WHO ’s mishandling of covid-19, failure to reform and lack of independence as reasons for withdrawal.

President Trump issued an executive order late Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the second time Trump has tried to pull the country

Three days before Trump’s swearing in to office, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, were cut off of all funding and formally debarred for an unprecedented five years.