Prof Dora Vargha is a historian of medicine, science and technology, with expertise in the history of epidemics, the politics of health, and Cold War history. She received her PhD in History from Rutgers University and was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, before joining the University of Exeter, where she is Professor of History and Medical Humanities. She is the principal investigator of the project and works especially on the history of international health cooperation between socialist countries.
Dr Luis Aue is a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC project “Socialist Medicine. An Alternative Global Health History”. He received his PhD from Free University Berlin and was a research fellow at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). His research focuses on the history of global and international health expertise and combines scholarship from history, political science, and science and technology studies. In the project, he works on the history of East German tropical medicne and the transnational history of the policlinic.
Alila Brossard Antonielli holds a PhD on Health and Social Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She has conducted fieldwork in Africa (Mozambique), Europe (France), and Latin America (Brazil, Peru, Uruguay) for academic research and for the NGO Médecins du Monde as associate researcher with the LASDEL Bénin. During her postdoctoral fellowship in the ERC project Socialist Medicine, she will focus on the creation of socialist health systems in Angola and Mozambique following their independence in 1975.
Nils Graber holds a PhD from the research centre Cermes3 at EHESS in Paris. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Socialist Medicine Project at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Nils is investigating the relationship between the socialist countries of COMECON in cancer research and pharmaceuticals between the 1970sand 1990s. His work also explores how this socialist network connected to the WHO and influenced international cancer research and policies in this period.
Dr Tine Hanrieder is a visiting researcher with the Socialist Medicine project in 2024. Tine is a political scientist and currently Assistant Professor in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics. Prior to moving to LSE, she was the leader of the Research Group Global Humanitarian Medicine at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Tine’s research currently focuses on labour politics in the health sector. She investigates the hidden and devalued labour of community health workers in the US Southwest, and the global regime of health worker migration especially nurse migration from developing to industrialized countries.
Prof Dora Vargha is a historian of medicine, science and technology, with expertise in the history of epidemics, the politics of health, and Cold War history. She received her PhD in History from Rutgers University and was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, before joining the University of Exeter, where she is Professor of History and Medical Humanities. She is the principal investigator of the project and works especially on the history of international health cooperation between socialist countries.
Dr Luis Aue is a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC project “Socialist Medicine. An Alternative Global Health History”. He received his PhD from Free University Berlin and was a research fellow at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). His research focuses on the history of global and international health expertise and combines scholarship from history, political science, and science and technology studies. In the project, he works on the history of East German tropical medicne and the transnational history of the policlinic.
Alila Brossard Antonielli holds a PhD on Health and Social Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She has conducted fieldwork in Africa (Mozambique), Europe (France), and Latin America (Brazil, Peru, Uruguay) for academic research and for the NGO Médecins du Monde as associate researcher with the LASDEL Bénin. During her postdoctoral fellowship in the ERC project Socialist Medicine, she will focus on the creation of socialist health systems in Angola and Mozambique following their independence in 1975.
Nils Graber holds a PhD from the research centre Cermes3 at EHESS in Paris. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Socialist Medicine Project at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Nils is investigating the relationship between the socialist countries of COMECON in cancer research and pharmaceuticals between the 1970sand 1990s. His work also explores how this socialist network connected to the WHO and influenced international cancer research and policies in this period.
Dr Tine Hanrieder is a visiting researcher with the Socialist Medicine project in 2024. Tine is a political scientist and currently Assistant Professor in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics. Prior to moving to LSE, she was the leader of the Research Group Global Humanitarian Medicine at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Tine’s research currently focuses on labour politics in the health sector. She investigates the hidden and devalued labour of community health workers in the US Southwest, and the global regime of health worker migration especially nurse migration from developing to industrialized countries.
