Precious Lunga

Dr Precious Lunga (born 4 October 1974) is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and CEO/co-Founder of Baobab Circle. Between 2017 and 2018, she created Afya Pap, a mobile app offering personalized health education and coaching on chronic diseases. The app is used across seven countries in Africa, including Kenya and Uganda. As Head of Health at Econet Wireless in 2015, Lunga launched a 24/7 dial-a-doctor service in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe to reach over 750,000 paying patients within a year of launch. Lunga is a Yale World Fellow and was featured as a speaker at the Southbank Centre's Women of the World Festival in London. Early life Precious Lunga was born in Bulawayo in what was then Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe), and grew up there until the age of 17, when she went to Britain to study. She attended the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1998 with a degree in neuroscience. She then earned a PhD in neuroscience in 2003 from the University of Cambridge, where she was also captain of the women's karate team.