KFF January 21, 2025
This factsheet has been updated to reflect the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, issued on January 20, 2025.
Key Facts
- The World Health Organization (WHO), founded in 1948, is a specialized agency of the United Nations with a broad mandate to act as a coordinating authority on international health issues, including helping countries mount responses to public health emergencies.
- The U.S. government (U.S.) has been actively engaged with WHO throughout its history, providing financial and technical support as well as participating in its governance structure. However, on January 20, 2025, President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw as a member of WHO and halt funding to the organization. In 2020,...
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