Workshop "COMECON Medicine: Organizations, Networks, and Political Economies", May 13th
On May 13th 2026, the ERC Socialist Medicine and the ERC Leviathan from Charité Berlin will host a Workshop on COMECON Medicine:
Program
9h-9h30: introduction
9h30-10h30:
- Dora Vargha (Humboldt University of Berlin), “‘But Comecon is already doing that’: ministers’ conferences and agenda setting in health and medicine”
- Bogdan C. Iacob (Romanian Academy), “Ambivalence and Cooperation: Romanian Experts and the COMECON Standing Commission on Healthcare”
- Chair: Volker Hess (Charité University Medicine)
11h-12h:
- Victoria Shmidt (University of Graz), “The Interkosmos Program and the Formation of Medical Psychology in State Socialism (and beyond)”
- Alexa Geisthövel (Charité University Medicine), “Intertransplant: Comecon Multilateralism in Kidney Transplantation”
- Chair: Simon Godard (Sciences Po Grenoble)
13h-14h:
- Grégory Dufaud (Université Polytechnique des Hauts de France), “Waging war on cancer: research on interferon and Comecon (1970s-1980s)”
- Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), “Socialist Transnational Biomedicine in Action: Coordinating Cancer Clinical Trials within COMECON”
- Chair: Luis Aue (Humboldt University of Berlin)
14h30-15h:
- Enrique Beldarrain Chaple (Medical University of Havana), “Cuba – COMECON relations in Hygiene and Epidemiology”
- Chair: Alila Brossard Antonielli (Humboldt University of Berlin)
15h-16h:
- Comments by Simon Godard (Sciences Po Grenoble)
- General discussion
Workshop "COMECON Medicine: Organizations, Networks, and Political Economies", May 13th
On May 13th 2026, the ERC Socialist Medicine and the ERC Leviathan from Charité Berlin will host a Workshop on COMECON Medicine:
Program
9h-9h30: introduction
9h30-10h30:
- Dora Vargha (Humboldt University of Berlin), “‘But Comecon is already doing that’: ministers’ conferences and agenda setting in health and medicine”
- Bogdan C. Iacob (Romanian Academy), “Ambivalence and Cooperation: Romanian Experts and the COMECON Standing Commission on Healthcare”
- Chair: Volker Hess (Charité University Medicine)
11h-12h:
- Victoria Shmidt (University of Graz), “The Interkosmos Program and the Formation of Medical Psychology in State Socialism (and beyond)”
- Alexa Geisthövel (Charité University Medicine), “Intertransplant: Comecon Multilateralism in Kidney Transplantation”
- Chair: Simon Godard (Sciences Po Grenoble)
13h-14h:
- Grégory Dufaud (Université Polytechnique des Hauts de France), “Waging war on cancer: research on interferon and Comecon (1970s-1980s)”
- Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), “Socialist Transnational Biomedicine in Action: Coordinating Cancer Clinical Trials within COMECON”
- Chair: Luis Aue (Humboldt University of Berlin)
14h30-15h:
- Enrique Beldarrain Chaple (Medical University of Havana), “Cuba – COMECON relations in Hygiene and Epidemiology”
- Chair: Alila Brossard Antonielli (Humboldt University of Berlin)
15h-16h:
- Comments by Simon Godard (Sciences Po Grenoble)
- General discussion
