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.

The dollar initially weakened after Trump’s inaugural address did not explicitly announce tariffs, but rallied after he said the US could impose 25 per cent levies on Mexico and Canada. Trump postponed the ban on TikTok but said he “certainly could” put tariffs on China if Beijing failed to approve a deal to sell the app to a US company.

China and Russia vow to elevate relationship as US president issues executive orders on domestic and global issues and delays TikTok ban.

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about one third say it benefits a fair amount. Conversely, 38% say the U.S. does not benefit much or at all from WHO membership.

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization. Here, we explain how the withdrawal would work and what it would mean,

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

This action follows an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office to withdraw the United States from the WHO.

The US withdrawal from the WHO will have a severe impact on HIV, polio and many other health programmes on the African continent.

Modern global regulatory bodies should draw upon the repertoire of strategies used by their 1930s predecessors to survive today’s threats.

Every year in late spring, US scientists get data from the World Health Organization’s surveillance network about strains of flu circulating around the world. They use that information to develop that year’s flu vaccine. If scientists lose access to the data, they may no longer be able to develop an effective vaccine.

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.