A physician, scientist and serial healthtech entrepreneur, Dr. Moka Lantum is one of Africa’s leading voices innovating models to radically expand healthcare access for the continent’s underserved populations. As CEO and Co-Founder of CheckUps Medical, East Africa’s homegrown trailblazer in tech-enabled urgent care and treatment home delivery, Moka is spearheading breakthrough solutions that simultaneously advance health equity and youth economic inclusion. His nurse-powered care coordination platform currently serves 300,000+ previously uninsured or vulnerable patients across Kenya and South Sudan.
Recognized as an Ashoka Fellow and Foreign Policy Global Thinker, Moka’s two-decade track record of marrying purpose with pragmatic business viability has rendered him a magnet for strategic capital and allies like Philips Foundation. He leverages data and strategic partnerships to address systemic constraints at the intersection of accessibility, affordability and quality. The ambition is to scale CheckUps’ success formula into Africa’s first mass-market health brand anchored on principles of sustainability, shared value, and cementing healthcare as a catalyst for uplifting lives, livelihoods, and
national prosperity. Moka represents the vanguard of forward-thinking, high-impact African healthtech leadership parting clouds on the continent’s most intractable development roadblocks through market-based solutions amplifying social returns. With strategic investment and collaboration, his models pave exciting pathways to Health for All in Africa and beyond.
Dr. Lantum trained in medicine at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon (1997) and went on to obtain a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Rochester (2001), a Master’s in Healthcare Management from Harvard (2013) as well as diplomas in nutrition, emergency response and global child health from academic institutions across Africa, Europe and North America.
He accrued over a decade of global experience including as a senior healthcare benefits management executive roles with Excellus Health Plan and Eastman Kodak in the USA. He then founded MicroClinic Technologies in Kenya – developing Africa’s first government-adopted national electronic medical record system used by over 200 facilities
