Precious Lunga

Precious Lunga (born 4 October 1974) is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and CEO/co-Founder of Baobab Circle. 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.

Quotes

• I’m a scientist, you can see them blinking.
  • The NS Interview: Precious Lunga, epidemiologist,(January 17,2012)

• I am one of those people who put 100% into whatever I am doing, so side hustles would never work for me. It has to be all in!
  • Precious talks about entrepreneurial advice as a CEO,(January 3, 2019)

• What COVID-19 has taught us is that health system resilience is the job of everyone.
  • Interview with Dr. Precious Lunga: Digitalizing Health Services to Bridge Africa’s Access Divide, (July 20, 2020)