Healthcare Innovation January 22, 2025
Pietje Kobus

Representatives of the O’Neill Institute object to the Trump Administration’s decision to begin pulling the U.S. out of the WHO

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law expressed concern over President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). Co-faculty directors, Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin and Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, released a statement saying that the U.S. “[i]s one of the largest funders of global health and contributes 22 percent of the WHO’s assessed dues. U.S. funding has been instrumental in supporting the WHO’s pandemic response. Without it, the organization’s ability to address global health emergencies will be significantly weakened, endangering health everywhere.”

“Trump made a unilateral decision to pull out of...

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