Chipo Mupure’s career spans more than 10 years of practicing transformative and systems thinking at strategic levels in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in public health to drive transformation of African health systems. She has worked with senior level ministry of health officials in Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Lesotho to design quality improvement programs in various areas including PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV), MNCH and supply chain management and implement them through consultative processes at subnational levels.

Passionate about human asset development, she strongly believes that people inherently hold solutions to their challenges. Chipo has designed and implemented leadership and development programs, including the Management Development Institute (MDI) at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. She has dedicated most of her work life to empowering public sector health management teams to transform their mindsets, shift cultures and innovate through mentorship and coaching. Driven by the real possibilities of strengthening the health system through homegrown innovations using systems thinking, she has also focused on bringing together multiple stakeholders to deliberately collaborate towards a common agenda.

Chipo is also passionate about the science of scaling to achieve sustainable impact. She provides capacity building and technical assistance in scaling innovations in the public sector using the ExpandNet/WHO tools and approaches. She facilitated the development of scaling strategies for improving Early Childhood Development outcomes of seven county teams in Kenya. She also provided technical assistance to the Lake Region Economic Bloc Secretariat in reviewing and strengthening their scale up strategy.

Chipo Mupure presently serves on the board of Spark Health Africa. She also sits on ExpandNet’s advisory council and provides thought partnership as a member of the task team for the development of ExpandNet’s Scaling Learning Centre.