The World Health Organization will push at its board meeting this week for an expanded role in tackling the next global health emergency after COVID-19, but is still seeking answers on how to fund ...

The United States has rejected amendments adopted in 2024 by members of the World Health Organization to its legally binding ...

Lawrence O. Gostin discusses the importance of equity and science in the face of threats to global health security.

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in ...

INTRODUCTION: As a class, watch the video clip below and use the guiding questions for class discussion. Video Clip 1: Role of the World Health Organization (3:22) Christian McMillen talked about ...

A dds quotes, context throughout. GENEVA, May 23 (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that it must be "at the centre" of a global healthcare system, while also ...

Trump’s anger toward World Health Organization may reshape global health, politics. Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an ...

World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty: The draft accord, which addresses structural inequities about how drugs or vaccines and health tools are developed, following lessons learned from the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 20 that withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a global coalition of 194 members that addresses health issues ...

Global health experts fear Donald Trump's plan to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization could roll back decades-long gains made in fighting diseases and increase pandemic risks.

The fourth global public health emergency was declared in 2016, with the outbreak of the Zika virus. Although first discovered in 1947, the virus, spread by mosquitoes, broke out in Brazil in 2015.