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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Founded in 2023, PHTI is an offshoot of the nonprofit Peterson Center on Healthcare, which aims to lower health care costs. It was founded by Peter G. Peterson, the late billionaire and former secretary of commerce for President Richard Nixon. PHTI helps health systems evaluate their technology to reduce health care spending.

Hospitals and clinics destroyed. Millions of tons of debris contaminated with toxic substances, unexploded ordnance and human remains. Tens of thousands of people with injuries that will require a lifetime of care.

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.