CEO & FounderBaobab Circle
Dr Precious Lunga is the Founder of Baobab Circle whose award winning Afya Pap digital platform is delivering affordable health services to over 250 000 people in Kenya and Uganda. Dr Lunga has made it her life’s mission to ensure that technological advances improve the health of even the most marginalised communities.
She was advisor to the Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and to the AU special envoy on COVID-19 vaccines. Previously she was at UNAIDS Geneva, where she played a pivotal role in advancing the implementation of HIV prevention programs. Additionally, she served as strategic advisor to the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, supporting impactful initiatives throughout Africa and India. She has a doctorate in neuroscience from Cambridge University and trained as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Lunga is a Yale World Fellow.