The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises.

The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders a pause on WHO funding.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization called on the US to reconsider a decision to leave the agency, suggesting the move could undermine global health security.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

Donald Trump's decision will have an even greater impact on the WHO, as the US is the main funder of the UN organization. This situation is likely to complicate many health policies, including the fight against future pandemics.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

In a crowded Paris metro car or at the counter of a bustling café, it’s easy to forget what loomed over us just five years ago.Yet, on the fifth anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China,

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would begin the process of removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Here's why.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

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