World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

This is the second time Trump tried to withdraw from WHO, with the first attempt in July 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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.

Public health experts evaluate the global and financial impact of the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization.

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,

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

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.

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.