1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Compensation for the Victims of State Misrepresentations to the World Health Organization Act of 2023 . 2. Findings (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) There is a role for an international organization to help mitigate infectious diseases that respect no boundaries. (2) The United States depends on an effective World Health Organization (WHO) to make good, well informed, and transparent public health decisions to contain infectious diseases. (3) In the past, the WHO played a critical role in addressing and mitigating infectious diseases, such as the 1979 eradication of smallpox, which eradication the WHO coordinated through a sustained global effort. (4) Without accurate information, the WHO cannot advise Member States properly on the risks posed by infectious diseases. (5) There are credible reports that in 2006, 2009, and 2011 the Government of Ethiopia misrepresented the nature and seriousness of cholera epidemics in that country to the WHO with a view towards minimizing the potential damage to their economy. (A) Those misrepresentations diminished the WHO’s effectiveness and the WHO transmitted inaccurate and misleading information regarding the presence of cholera to participating states. (B) Other Member States relied on the misleading and inaccurate information that the WHO communicated to them to formulate public health policy, resulting in loss of life, injury, and damage to property and commercial interests to citizens outside of Ethiopia as a consequence of that country’s misrepresentations to the WHO. (6) There are credible reports that WHO Member States misrepresented facts concerning the Ebola outbreak to that organization with a view towards minimizing the commercial impact that a widely disseminated understanding of the risks posed by the Ebola epidemic may have caused in their individual economies. (A) Those misrepresentations diminished the WHO’s effectiveness, and the WHO transmitted inaccurate and misleading information regarding the