Lucky Tomdi is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interest is in the history of health, medicine, science, race, and gender with a focus on the development of health systems, professions, and patient care. His current research looks at the professionalization of African health labor within colonial and Christian missionary biomedical health infrastructures over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Ghana. This project examines the silenced roles, agency, and contributions of Africans who across intersectional categories worked to sustain biomedical healthcare. It also interrogates the intersection of gender, race and class in the recruitment and training of local labor into the biomedical health service. I argue that the work of African labor was central to the success and organization of biomedicine in Ghana. Understanding the type of work, the skills learned, the resilience and limitations of local health workers, all of whom contributed to the success and organization of biomedicine adds to our understanding of global health within local contexts.