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Kennedy Holds the Line on American Participation in the WHO

On Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, reaffirmed the United States' plan to exit the World Health Organization.
The withdrawal follows President Donald Trump’s July 2020 executive order criticizing the WHO’s pandemic response, while President Joe Biden later reinvigorated U.S. Participation after taking office.
Kennedy condemned the WHO for being bogged down by excessive bureaucracy, outdated practices, competing interests, and global political struggles, and accused it of lacking transparency and equitable governance.
He stated the United States historically provided the lion’s share of funding and urged global health leaders to treat the U.S. Withdrawal as a "wake-up call" to reform the system.
Kennedy advocated for establishing new organizations or reforming existing ones to be more streamlined, effective, open, and responsible in order to improve global health efforts outside of the current WHO system.

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