{"id":65433,"date":"2026-02-04T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/illinois-joins-who-network-after-trump-pulls-us-out-of-global-health-body\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:54:48","slug":"illinois-joins-who-network-after-trump-pulls-us-out-of-global-health-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/illinois-joins-who-network-after-trump-pulls-us-out-of-global-health-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois joins WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor JB Pritzker pledges to put \u2018science, preparedness and people\u2019 first by participating in global response network<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/illinois\">Illinois<\/a> governor, JB Pritzker, has announced that his state will join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/world-health-organization\">World Health Organization<\/a>\u2019s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s decision to withdraw the US from the global body in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker, a Democrat, made the <a href=\"https:\/\/dph.illinois.gov\/resource-center\/news\/2026\/february\/release-20260203.html\">announcement<\/a> on Tuesday, confirming that Illinois will become part of the coordinated international network dedicated to monitoring and responding to global disease outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/illinois-world-health-organization-global-outbreak-alert-and-response-network\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor JB Pritzker pledges to put \u2018science, preparedness and people\u2019 first by participating in global response network The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has announced that his state will join the World Health Organization\u2019s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), following Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the US from the global body in 2025. Pritzker, &#8230; <a title=\"Illinois joins WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/illinois-joins-who-network-after-trump-pulls-us-out-of-global-health-body\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Illinois joins WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}