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.

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative.

On the first day of his second administration, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations health agency. He ...

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO ...

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could ... It is the U.N.’s specialized health agency and is mandated to coordinate the world’s response to global health ...

Trump announces US withdrawal from WHO for second time – but what implications could this have for the organisation?

WHO, the United Nations health agency ... to help the world understand how the pandemic began. During his latest election campaign, Trump was more brazen, calling the organization “nothing ...