Can a deal be done to keep the US in the WHO?

Can a deal be done to keep the US in the WHO?

Published on Jan 24
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Medicine and Science from The BMJ
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<p>US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the US out of the WHO. This would cut funding for the UN’s medical agency by one-fifth.</p> <p>Will they really exit, or can a deal be made? Lawrence Gostin hopes so, and as a professor of law at Georgetown, and director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, he is working with senior US and WHO officials to try and understand what reforms could be made to WHO what would allow a such a deal to be be struck.</p> <p>Gostin also believes that the president cannot withdraw from the WHO with an executive order, but instead requires congressional approval - and is exploring the options for legal challenge to the move.</p> <p> </p> <p>00:00 Intro</p> <p>01:01 US history with the WHO</p> <p>03:31 Executive order</p> <p>06:35 WHO’s relationship with China</p> <p>11:14 Funding</p> <p>12:47 Benefits to US from the WHO</p> <p>18:05 H5N1 threat</p> <p>19:43 World benefits from US...