Lungile Gamede is a passionate midwife as well as a reproductive, maternal, child and youth health advocate. Having witnessed first hand how much the social determinants of health account for health outcomes as a clinician, she is also an aspiring social scientist and is currently enrolled for a Masters in Health Sociology. Lungile is a current Global Atlantic Fellow for health equity based at Tekano and a certified career coach and mentor, using this to better improve health outcomes beyond the four walls of a health facility.
She has experience in health policy advocacy in order to better advance equitable access to healthcare for communities living in rural areas, and a founder of a Women’s Health Movement called ‘With Sis’, which takes on a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health, aiming to contribute towards SDG 3 and 5 through primordial and primary prevention of reproductive diseases. Through ‘With Sis’ , she also does outreach campaigns in high schools to extend help to teenage mothers and teenage girls. She also serves in other women-centred organisations such as Women in the Marketplace and Women Alive Soul Healing International. Lungile is also the recipient of the UN Circle of Influence Award 2025, received at the 69th Session of the UN Commission on the Status for Women.
Lungile is a founder of a Women’s Health Movement called ‘With Sis’, which takes on a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health, aiming to contribute towards SDG 3 and 5 through primordial and primary prevention of reproductive diseases.
Lungile Gamede