Precious Lunga

Precious Lunga "is a key manager of the world’s largest public-private clinical trial initiative aimed at developing an HIV-prevention gel for women. She plays a direct role in expanding HIV research capacity in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, and South Africa. She has succeeded in bringing together diverse stakeholders, including government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and trial participants, who include approximately ten thousand African women in anti-HIV microbicide trials. Lunga’s ultimate aim is to improve health in developing countries and emerging economies."

• Fellow (2008), Yale World Fellows Program

In June 2010 she married Jon Snow.