1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Global COVID-19 Truth, Transparency, and Accountability Act . 2. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to promote effectiveness, coordination, transparency, and accountability of international global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), so that they will be more effective in catalyzing global and country actions to address health crises, especially with a view toward preparing for, and responding to, global pandemics and transnational health emergencies. 3. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) There is a compelling role for an international organization to help mitigate infectious diseases that respect no national borders. (2) The World Health Organization (WHO) has played a critical role in addressing and mitigating infectious diseases, such as coordinating the Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP) from 1966 through 1980. (3) The 2017 National Security Strategy states that Naturally emerging outbreaks of viruses such as Ebola, H1N1, MERS-CoV, the 2003 SARS-CoV-1 outbreak, as well as the deliberate 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, demonstrated the impact of biological threats on national security by taking lives, generating economic losses, and contributing to a loss of confidence in government institutions. . (4) The United States depends on an effective WHO to make good, well-informed public health decisions to contain infectious diseases. (5) The SARS-CoV-2 or Coronavirus Disease 2019 (commonly known as COVID-19 ) pandemic appears to have originated in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. (6) Chinese officials initially reported to the WHO in January 2020 that there was no evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was spread by human to human contact. (7) The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the annual celebration of the Chinese New Year, which is the largest annual human migration in the world. (8) The Government of Taiwan, based on its own research, communicated to the WHO in December 2019 that COVID-19