President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.

President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

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The executive order cites the organization ... WHO would make the world far less healthy and safe,” Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Law at Georgetown ...

Trump justified the decision by accusing the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and failing to implement meaningful reforms. He also criticized the organization for what he called “unfairly high financial contributions” from the U.

The US intends to leave the World Health Organization. What happens next? Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the public health field.

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.

Federal health agencies were ordered to pause all communications this week, but these Washington health organizations are still running.

The Trump administration's "short pause" on communications, expected to end on Feb. 1, has affected FDA updates on food contamination investigations.