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.

President Trump’s executive order for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization could greatly impact the nation’s ability to track and respond to global disease threats.

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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.

Top clinical officers at NYU Langone Health and Scripps Health share what their organizations learned from the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Public health experts say there could be massive implications after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

The African Union expressed dismay Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, urging his administration to reconsider. The United States was in the process of withdrawing from the WHO during Trump's first term,

In 2020, Trump was highly critical of the WHO for being too "China-centric" in its tackling of Covid-19, and the organisation has since become a "target" of US conservatives over its work on a global pandemic treaty that they view as a "threat to American sovereignty", said the The New York Times.