{"id":427962,"date":"2026-01-24T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427962\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:56:09","slug":"the-united-states-has-officially-left-who-ending-a-year-of-controversial-health-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427962\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States has officially left WHO, ending a year of controversial health reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euronews news story<\/p>\n<p>22 January 2026 was the United States\u2019 final day as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) after a year of polemic health policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 January 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order to formally initiate the United States\u2019 withdrawal from WHO \u2013 a process that concluded on 22 January 2026, a year after the United Nations was notified.<\/p>\n<p>The US government cited the organisation\u2019s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states, as reasons for its departure.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement last year, the United States\u2019 health policy has steadily distanced itself from the international organisation and broader global frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2026\/01\/23\/the-united-states-has-officially-left-who-ending-a-year-of-controversial-health-reforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.SEE ALSO:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Euronews news story 22 January 2026 was the United States\u2019 final day as a member of the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-427962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}