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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the ...

Reduced funding, weakened disease surveillance and disruptions to health programs are likely consequences of the United States' exit from the World Health Organization. The United States sent major ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) affirmed his state’s continued departure from current federal health policy by announcing Friday that California will be the first ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom said Friday that California is joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, marking the state’s first formal partnership ...

California has become the first state to break from the Trump administration and realign with the World Health Organization, joining its Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network independently.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — As the Trump administration moves to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), the state of California is taking a different approach to ...

A year since President Donald Trump announced that he would pull the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. is officially exiting the health agency. In a joint statement on Thursday, ...

22 January 2026 was the United States’ final day as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) after a year of polemic health policy decisions. On 20 January 2025, Donald Trump signed an ...

As of today, the US is no longer a member of the World Health Organization—and it leaves the United Nations health agency with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills, according to reporting ...

The U.S. is set to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, one year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the withdrawal. Trump announced on the first day ...

The U.S. withdrawal from WHO, finalized today, follows President Trump's executive order citing WHO's management failures and financial burdens on the U.S. Critics argue the decision is shortsighted ...