Dr Lungi Nyathi is a senior and versatile leader in healthcare and is passionate about building sustainable and caring health systems in Africa. She is currently the CEO of Alignd, one of the few companies that offer value-based care solutions for complex health problems. Their leading, novel product focuses on palliative care in the oncology setting.  

She has over a decade in managed care experience, her previous role being an executive director at Medscheme and AfroCentric Health. She oversaw the actuarial, advanced analytics, hospital negotiations, health provider networks and disease risk management for Aid for AIDS — managing the financial and clinical risk of 15 health funders with her teams.  

She has served on several boards in the healthcare space, including boards of a public hospital, several managed care organisations and the BHF. 

She served as workstream lead for workplace vaccination programmes in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of Business4South Africa’s collaboration with the National Department of Health.