Jean-Paul Gaudillire is historian of science and senior researcher at the French National Institute for Medical Research and coordinator of the European Research Council project 'From international to global: Knowledge, disease and the post-war government of health' Claire Beaudevin is anthropologist and researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research Christoph Gradmann is historian and Professor at the University of Oslo for the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health Anne Lovell is anthropologist and senior researcher (emeritus) at the French National Institute for Medical Research Laurent Pordi is anthropologist and researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research