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

The move to exit the WHO is historic and controversial. The U.S. has long been the most generous provider of humanitarian assistance.

The US under Donald Trump plans to withdraw from the WHO, accusing it of mishandling COVID-19 and other global health concerns. The WHO has expressed regret and urged the US to reconsider, highlighting its crucial role in global health and its historical partnership with the country.

After previously blaming it for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump is pulling the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order removing the United States from the World Health Organization, steering the country away from participation with the specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for global public health.

Curiously, while Trump sees the withdrawal as an act of cementing US power, it achieves the opposite, writes .

President Trump issued an executive order Monday night withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. The U.S. has historically been the largest funder of the

Despite a rise in the number of individuals needing treatment for substance use disorder in the United States, treatment rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic before starting to recover in 2022.

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic