Research Interests: History of medicine and science in and beyond Europe and America; history of chronic diseases such as heart diseases, neurological disorders and cancers, of therapeutics such as cardiology, cardiac surgery, and coronary revascularization, of neurology and neurosurgery, of specialty training and education, of global health, and of medical ethics in sub-Saharan Africa; and the origin of neurosurgery in the US

Frank Blibo is a PhD candidate in history of science, with expertise in the following areas: the history of medicine, especially the patient safety, quality of care, high reliability and resilient healthcare revolution in the history of medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as the history of modern cardiovascular medicine, oncology, and the neurosciences in Africa; decentering and decolonialization of the history of science and medicine; race, ethnicity and science, technology, and health; history of modern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth century, especially economic growth, recenssions, fiscal devaluations and macroeconomic policies in sub-Saharan Africa; anthropology of biomedicine; medicine and modern management, organizational, and strategy sciences; environmental humanities and the new materialisms; and moral and polital philosophy.

His many accolades include a SHASS Diversity Predoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Nigerian Fellowship for Distinguished African Students and the Oppenheimer Graduate Fellow from Harvard University; numerous dissertation research awards from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard University African Studies Center, and the American Historical Association; the best African postgraduate student award in technology transfer from Cambridge University Center for African Studies; Harvard Divinity School Merit Scholar; A. G. Leventis Foundation Scholar awards; a Desmond Tutu Master’s Scholar award from the University of Edinburgh and the Church of Scotland; and the overall best academic graduating student award from Trinity Theological Seminary.

Blibo received Master of Arts from Harvard University, Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, Master of Theology from the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelor of Theology with first class honors from Trinity Theological Seminary as well as a diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with specialization in Telecommunication Engineering from Ho Technical University.

Blibo is currently working on two book projects. The first is titled, “Relocating and Decentering Modern Cardiovascular Medicine: The Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan and the Rise of Safer, High-Quality, High-Reliability Care, and Resilient Cardiovascular Care for Africans, 1971-2022.” His second book project is titled, “The Lungs of Humanity: The Untold Story of the Resilience of An African Rainforest and Carbon Sink in the Congo Basin.”   

Previous Degrees:
BTh., Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana
ThM., University of Edinburgh
MTS., Harvard Divinity School
AM., Harvard History of Science