Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on other countries to exit the World Health Organization and join the United States in bilateral and multilateral agreements to advance global public health goals. 

Kennedy said in a video address on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order to leave the group ought to be a “wake-up call” to other WHO member states that the international body is corrupted by political and corporate interests, evidenced by the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.