Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic, and also aided Democrats who called Trump’s own move to shut the border to Chinese travelers racist.

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.

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.

The WHO is an agency of the United Nations tasked with coordinating responses to public health emergencies between nations. The United States is a founding member of the organization, which was set up in 1948 in the wake of World War II.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

ordered that the United States take steps to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Washington’s more than 70-year membership in the WHO nearly ended in Trump’s first term in office ...

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.

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

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.