The research group explores the co-production of societies and epidemics. We conduct ethnographic field research on Ebola outbreaks and the Covid-19 pandemic in the DR Congo, Uganda, and in Germany. We aim to develop an anthropological perspective on epidemics and pandemics, asking how epidemics (or pandemics) become global socio-political crises. How do pathogens behave in damaged ecologies? And, looking at the formative social anthropological debates of recent years, what biosocial transformations are made visible by newly emerging infectious diseases? How do pandemics change social imaginaries of future health? Our research projects engage these questions along the 4 thematic axes: Atmospheres of Mistrust and Trust, Mobile Biologies, Bodies and Infection, Vulnerable human-animal-environmental interactions. The thematic axis Viral atmospheres explores individual and collective feelings to understand how epidemics (or pandemics) become social crisis. Mobile Biologies attempts to connect anthropological analysis and molecular biological analysis of outbreaks to explore the circulation of viruses in damaged ecologies. Bodies and Infection explores central biosocial transformation made visible by newly emerging epidemics. Under the axis Vulnerable human-animal-environmental interactions, we exlore the space of improving the protection and care of future interactions between humans, animals, and the environment.