The 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health opened virtually *yesterday to provide an opportunity to advance efforts to prevent TB and COVID-19. The five-day conference is reportedly the world's largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, health programme managers, policymakers, researchers and advocates working to end the suffering caused by lung disease. To discuss this further, Samora Mangesi spoke to Dr Grania Brigden, Director of the TB Department at the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease..