Research network PharmaGHaSTS
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the launch conference of the network
« PharmaGHaSTS : Research Network – Critical Social Science of Pharmaceuticals at the Intersection of Global Health and Science, Technology, and Society ».
Date: 12 March 2026 (Thursday)
Location: Panoramic Room (4th floor), MSH Paris Nord
20 avenue George Sand, Saint-Denis (Front Populaire metro station)
Please register here.
This network brings together critical social science researchers working on pharmaceuticals and related technologies – including diagnostic tools, medicines and vaccines – at the intersection of global health and science, technology and society (STS).
The opening conference will offer an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral dialogue on pharmaceutical production based on two alternative models:
public vaccine production in Brazil
the collective project of producing medicines as common goods in France
Please note: the event will be held in English.
Funded by Université Paris Cité and King’s College London, the network aims to encourage social science research and dialogue with non-academic actors in order to better understand the dysfunctions of the current pharmaceutical system and explore alternative models of research, development and manufacturing that promote equity and justice in health.
Rethinking Pharmaceutical Production in the Global South and North : Launch conference for the PharmaGHaSTS network (Université Paris Cité & King’s College London)
Programme
4pm — Introduction and launch of the PharmaGHaSTS network
(Koichi Kameda & Anne Pollock)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. — Pharma Public & Commons: dialogue with actors from the South and North
With Patricia Neves and Gaëlle Krikorian
Introduction: Koichi Kameda
Moderator: Anne Pollock
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. — Cocktail reception and book launch:
- Technoscientific Globalisation from Below
- Big Bad Pharma, Enough Is Enough! Changing the Pharmaceutical Economy to Improve Care
Speakers :
Anne Pollock – Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Her work focuses on the feminist, anti-racist, and postcolonial dimensions of biomedicine and pharmaceutical policy. She is the author of Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (2012); Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery (2019); Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States (2021).
Koichi Kameda – Sociologist and legal scholar, research fellow at IRD, affiliated with Ceped (IRD–Université Paris Cité). His research examines health sovereignty, technological autonomy, and equitable models of pharmaceutical R&D. Co-editor of Technoscientific Globalisation from Below (2025), with Mathieu Quet, Jessica Pourraz, and Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar.
Gaëlle Krikorian – Sociologist, policy advisor, and activist for access to medicines. Coordinator of Communs Pharmaceutiques. Former campaign lead on access to essential medicines at MSF. Author of Des Big Pharma aux communs (2022) and Big Bad Pharma, ça suffit ! (2025).
Patricia Neves – Biologist, Head of RNA Product Development at Bio-Manguinhos / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro). Specialist in immunology and public health innovation, involved in the regional mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub for Latin America (WHO / PAHO).
We look forward to welcoming you,
Koichi Kameda, on behalf of the PharmaGHaSTS organizing team
If you’d like, I can also adapt the tone (more formal, for a program booklet, or for an email invitation).