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.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

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

As of President Donald Trump’s first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization. Some local experts think such a move might leave Spokane and the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.

World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public health emergency of international concern.

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.

The U.S. has strongly influenced the agency since its founding after World War ... the Pan-American Health Organization, WHO’s regional office for the Americas, is based in Washington, D.C ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

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.

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.”