WHO power grab dangers

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. US Health and Human Services Secretary

US withdraws WHO

Some background to decision

(and more importantly to chart a future path toward global cooperation on health and health security)

WHO, legacy institution

Mired in

Bureaucratic bloat

Entrenched paradigms

Conflicts of interest

International power politics.

United States has paid

China, exerted undue influence over its operations,

in ways that serve their own interests,

and not particularly the interests of the global public.

This all became obvious during the COVID pandemic

WHO (under pressure from China), suppressed reports at critical junctures.

E.g. human to human transmission

WHO worked with China to promote the fiction that covid virus originated from bats or pangolins,

rather than from a Chinese government sponsored research lab in Wuhan.

WHO

failed to maintain an organization characterized by transparency and fair governance,

by and for its member states.

WHO acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens,

and not to transnational or corporate interests.

Staff at WHO are conscientious people who sincerely believe in what they're doing.

WHO has done important work in the past

Too often though, WHO priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine.

Too often it has allowed political agendas like pushing harmful gender ideology to hijack its core mission.

And too often it has become the tool of politics and turned its back on promoting health and health security.

Global cooperation on health is still critically important

but it isn't working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate.

The WHO has not even come to terms with its failures during COVID,

let alone made significant reforms.

Instead, it has doubled down with the pandemic agreement,

which will lock in all of the dysfunctions of the WHO pandemic response.

Well, we're not going to participate in that.

We need to reboot the whole system

United States

Continue to focus on infectious disease and pandemic preparedness,

But shifting the priorities to focus on chronic diseases

It's the chronic disease epidemic that is sickening our people and bankrupting our health care system.
Healthcare US to serve the needs of the public instead of industry profit taking.

We are

Removing food dyes and other harmful additives from our food supply.

Investigating the causes of autism and other chronic diseases.

Seeking to reduce consumption of ultrarocessed foods.

Support lifestyle changes that will bolster the immune systems and transform the health of our people.

Few of these efforts lend themselves easily to profits or serve established special interests.

These changes require systemic overhaul

We'd like to see a similar change of priorities on the global stage.

E.g. Millions of global citizens have seen a reduction in premature death due to HIV, TB, and malaria.

Let's return to the core focus of global health and global health security.

Back to reducing infectious disease burden and the spread of diseases of pandemic potential.

I urge the world's health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call.

We just want international cooperation to happen in a way that's fair and efficient and transparent for all the member states.

We've already been in contact with like-minded countries,

and we encourage others to consider joining us.

Free international health cooperation

The straight jacket of political interference by corrupting influences of the pharmaceutical companies

From adversarial nations and their NGO proxies.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite my fellow health ministers around the world into a new era of cooperation.

We don't have to suffer the limits of a moribund WHO.

Let's create new institutions or revisit existing institutions that are lean, efficient, transparent, and accountable.

Whether it's an emergency outbreak of an infectious disease or the pervasive rot of chronic conditions that have been overtaking not just America, but the whole world,

we're ready to work with you.

Thank you, and may God bless you.

And let's all pray for the health of our children and our grandchildren.

Produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-05-2025-world-health-assembly-adopts-historic-pandemic-agreement-to-make-the-world-more-equitable-and-safer-from-future-pandemics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImLFYh5VXI0