The American CEO of Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Friday warned that the United States' exit from the World Health Organization and related programmes risks harming millions of people worldwide.

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,

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

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.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention strategies, and more. The loss of US funding is likely to have a significant impact on at least some of these programs.

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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 Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

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

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.