Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History (360G-Wellcome-205681_Z_16_Z)

The aim of this Seed Award is to develop an Investigator Award application for a project on the role of socialism as concept, and socialist internationalism as practice in shaping global health history, focusing primarily on the Cold War era. The project to be developed with the help of this grant will investigate socialism and socialist internationalism simultaneously from within and from without. First, it will track how ideas of public health and medicine circulated among socialist countries and welfare states, which practices and concepts were adopted as opposed to others, and how local solutions fed back to the overall idea of health in national and international contexts. Second, it will explore how socialist medicine engaged with Western and non-aligned health systems and global health programs. The project in this sense provides a significantly new perspective on histories of global health. Key goals: develop an Investigator Award application conduct archival scoping on four continents identify research questions, concepts and methods through workshops build local research capacity and create network of research assistants, experts and scholars in key research sites develop an academic network in which the project can be embedded establish Advisory Board for research project