Many thanks to @theunion.org and @the-independent.com for highlighting our work estimating the impact of reductions in global health funding on #TB morbidity and mortality @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Ahead of The Union World Conference on Lung Health, Katherine Horton provides @the-independent.com with insights into the devastating impact of the funding cuts on global health, particularly tuberculosis. Be sure to read about the threat of UK aid cuts: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🎓 Advance your career and impact in lung health We are excited to offer a range of Post-Graduate Courses and Workshops at the #WCLH2025 on 18 November in Copenhagen. 📌Details: https://tinyurl.com/37bts3ph 🎯Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt#WCLH2025 #UnionConf #PublicHealth #TB

🚭 Meet the Expert at #WCLH2025: Tara Singh Bam 🗓️ 19 Nov | 08:00 – 09:00 Session: Importance of Smoking Cessation in Improving TB Treatment Outcomes Let’s connect science, policy and action - one conversation at a time. 🎯Register: https://tinyurl.com/5f9n39cr#WCLH2025 #UnionConf

🚨 FREE online course on Drug-Resistant TB for clinicians & programme managers in LMICs. 🎓 4 core modules 🧠 Self-paced 📜 Certificates 🌍 Learn anytime, anywhere 🎥 Hear from the Course Director: https://youtu.be/iNsWzLqZrDw 👉 Start now: https://tinyurl.com/mfpha2p4

🤝Join us at #WCLH2025 for Meet the Leadership Event Network with The Union's leaders, incl. Dr. Kavindhran Velen & Dr. Cassandra Kelly-Cirino. 📅 20 Nov | 🕠 17:30–19:00 CET 📍 The Tree House, Bella Center, Copenhagen 🎟️ €150 🎟️ Register: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt#WCLH2025 #UnionConf

💰 Innovative financing for TB programmes: Maximising resources in line with ambitious targets This timely symposium at #WCLH2025 explores new ways to generate and sustain TB financing. 📅 18 Nov from 16:45–18:15 CET 🎯Register Now: https://tinyurl.com/5f9n39cr#WCLH2025 #UnionConf #EndTB

💡As global TB R&D funding faces new challenges, how can we keep progress moving? Join us for this special session at #WCLH2025 📌Sustaining momentum - Collective strategies for advancing TB innovation. 🗓️ 20 Nov 🕓 15:55-17:25 CET 🎯Register: https://tinyurl.com/5f9n39cr#WCLH2025#UnionConf

🩺 The Union has launched a new free online course: Chest Radiograph Interpretation for Diagnosis of TB in Adults 🎥 Watch Dr Pranay Sinha’s introducing the course: https://youtu.be/5Emzt6ojPic 🔗 Start learning: https://tinyurl.com/yp6hrxpk #TBdiagnosis #Radiology #MedicalEducation

🗓️The countdown continues In exactly 3 weeks, the world’s leading lung health event opens its doors. Do not miss this opportunity to connect, collaborate and create impact in the space where science meets policy. Book your spot for #WCLH2025. 🎯Register: https://tinyurl.com/5f9n39cr

📘 Are you working in TB or child health? Join our free online course on managing TB in children & adolescents — self-paced modules + trainer resources. 📍 Ideal for national TB programmes. 👉 Start here: https://shorturl.at/Owreq #TBtraining #GlobalHealth

📊 The Interpreting chest X-rays in children with presumptive TB course has a 98% satisfaction rate. Join thousands of professionals improving their diagnostic skills. 🎥 Learn from Dr Megan Palmer: https://bit.ly/46IgFAW #TBtraining #UnionCourses #GlobalHealth

📢 The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025 is officially CME accredited ✅ EACCME®: up to 29 ECMEC®s ✅ EBAP: 25 CME credits + 5 extra with the Mark of Excellence 🌟 CME form available 19 Nov – 3 Dec 🎯Register for #WCLH2025: https://tinyurl.com/5f9n39cr 📌https://tinyurl.com/22bd59v8

What progress has been made on Zoonotic TB since the 2017 Roadmap? 🎙️ Join us for a key webinar: After the Roadmap: Where Are We Now? 📅Oct 21 | 11AM EST | 5PM Paris 🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/76cmsemh 📘 Read the Roadmap: https://tinyurl.com/5n6sh99w

🚨 A gentle reminder that today (18 October) is the last day to avail standard rates for the much-awaited event of the year #WCLH2025. Prices will increase from tomorrow. Make sure you buy your registration ticket before 23:59 CET. 🎯 Register: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt#WCLH2025

We are seeking nominations to fill vacancies on our Board of Directors.  Union members can nominate themselves for a Board role. If you share our vision and values and are interested in a Board position, please get in touch on [email protected] for more information

📚 Boost your TB diagnostic skills with a free online course in French 🇫🇷 — focused on chest radiograph interpretation. - Interactive learning - Certificate of completion 📍 English version coming soon 📲 Sign up here https://bit.ly/3KyaxCH #TB #eLearning #UnionCourses

⏳ Only 5 days left to register at the Standard Rate The Programme of #WCLH2025 is packed with world-class science, inspiring plenaries & powerful community sessions. 📜https://tinyurl.com/yhkd9mx5 🎯Join us in person. 💻Or, tune in virtually too. 📌Register: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt

🌏 Dr Kalpita Shringarpure’s SORT IT journey shows how operational research can effect change. She is strengthening systems by improving MDR-TB care in Gujarat & mentoring researchers across India. 🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4rx5b7x3 📩 Learn about #SORTIT: [email protected]

What progress has been made on zoonotic TB since the Roadmap? 🎙️ Join us for a key webinar: After the Roadmap: Where Are We Now? 📅Oct 21 | 11AM EST | 5PM Paris 🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/76cmsemh 📘 Read the Roadmap: https://tinyurl.com/5n6sh99w

"The Union World Conference on Lung Health is where we come together to turn this momentum (in TB) into action," says Askar Yedilbayev, Regional Advisor for Tuberculosis, WHO Regional Office for Europe. https://tinyurl.com/2ua48jev 🎯Register Now: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt #WCLH2025 #TB

Don’t miss out🌍 Standard registration for #WCLH2025 ends in just a few days - on 18 October. Register now to join the world’s leading Conference on lung health in Copenhagen from 18-21 November. ➡️Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt#WCLH2025 #EndTB #UnionConf #GlobalHealth

📢Be a Volunteer The Union warmly invites Danish/EU citizens, or non-EU citizens who already have a work and residence permit for Denmark to volunteer at #WCLH2025. 📌If interested, please fill this form: https://tinyurl.com/tkb6dkxj 🎯Details: https://tinyurl.com/bdwsvvau

Tomorrow (3 October), our Tobacco Control member group will be hosting the 'Oral nicotine pouches and public health' webinar. Be sure to join! Register at: https://ow.ly/baJX50WZszW For more information about our Tobacco Control member group, please email [email protected]

Tomorrow, @cassandrakc.bsky.social will take part in 'Ensuring Access to Tuberculosis (TB) Testing: Maintaining and Expanding TB Testing Services in the Current Funding Climate', hosted by Global Health Impact Group. 📅 1 October, 15:00-16:30 CET Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔥Mark your calendars!🔥 @ats-pitb.bsky.social is hosting a🌲PINE🌲Webinar on Post-TB Lung Disease 🫁 Case-based discussion, diagnosis & treatment with 🌍 global experts! 📅 Tue Oct 28 10AM ET 🗒️Register Here: bit.ly/47X6auu #TB @atscommunity.bsky.social @theunion.org @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Register Now! 2026 END TB Conference web.cvent.com/event/ed3744... 📅 February 25-28, 2026 📍Philadelphia, PA Register by Nov 30, 2025 to receive Early Bird pricing. If you are a Union member, you can also register for Union member pricing. #EndTB #Tuberculosis #TBSky #IDSky @theunion.org

🫁Access saves lives. This #WorldLungDay, The Union calls for action: without access, prevention fails, treatment is delayed & lives are lost. We are committed to: ✅Free online courses ✅Open-access journals ✅Latest science at #UnionConf2025 ✅A global lung health network

Lung health experts call for urgent action to transform chronic respiratory diseases into a global health priority. ⚖️ Prof @marksguy.bsky.social described the need in three words: impact, justice, and equity. @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/.../PIIS2213... #UNGA80 #ActOnNCDs

Oral nicotine pouches are rising in popularity fast but what are the public health risks? Register for a webinar on harms, regulation & policy. 🗓️ 3 Oct | 17:30 IST 🔗 Register: ow.ly/M21F50WZszX 📩 To join our Tobacco Control Section: [email protected]

The Union is delighted to announce the appointment of new Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Kavindhran Velen. Kavi is a microbiologist and epidemiologist with over 18 years of experience in public and global health. 👐 Please join us in welcoming Kavi to the Union family! theunion.org/news/new-chi...

🏥 On #WorldPatientSafetyDay, The Union highlights the need for safe, effective care for every child. In Lesotho, TB training developed with the U.S. CDC has led to increased childhood TB notifications, showing the impact of stronger frontline care. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yck8ruds #EndTB #LungHealth

FIRS World Lung Day Webinar: Redefining Lung Health Prof Guy Marks, President of The Union, will chair and speak on: Chronic Respiratory Diseases: A Growing Global Health Challenge. Overview of the global CRD burden and key risk factors 🗓 25 Sept | 13:00 BST 👉 Register: bit.ly/WLDWebinar

We have extended the closing date! Please send in nominations by the revised date of 24 September 2025.

🌍 Clean air is essential for healthy lungs and healthy lives. 📣Today, on #WorldCleanAirDay, The Union joins the call for collective action to secure clean air for all. 📰 Read @cassandrakc.bsky.social's message: theunion.org/news/clean-a... #CleanAirDay #CleanAirNow

💥 Launching in 2026, IJTLD CRD is our new open access journal for the latest research in low- and middle-income countries. 💪 Our aim is to influence policy and enhance clinical care in LMICs. 📭 We welcome articles on ALL aspects of chronic respiratory disease. theunion.org/our-work/jou...

🔍 How can we make health programmes work better? Operational research studies real-world problems in health systems and finds practical solutions to improve outcomes. 📋 The Union’s new factsheet explains how. 🔗: ow.ly/4cas50WNs3n

🩻 Chest X-rays are critical for diagnosing TB in children when bacteriological tests are not possible. The Union’s new factsheet offers clear guidance for using CXRs to support treatment decisions and strengthen TB programmes. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/y7vntw2d

🤱Over 200,000 pregnant women and their infants suffer from TB each year. 📣 Our Maternal and Child TB Working Group led the call for research to #endTB in pregnant and lactating women. They played a vital role in the @who.int call to action and consensus statement: theunion.org/news/union-m...

Interviewing 1 TB book author = cool Interviewing 4 amazing TB book authors = amazing! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan Join us in Copenhagen at @theunion.org Conference in November! conf2025.theunion.org

🚨 Early registration deadline is August 18th for The Union World Conference on Lung Health 📍 Copenhagen 📅 November 18–21 🔗 Register now: conf2025.theunion.org #TBSky #LungHealth #UnionConf #EndTB #WCLH2025 @theunion.org

🌎 Symposium Spotlight Join us at the Union World conference on Lung Health for a critical symposium with The Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security. 🗓️18 November 2025 ⏰ 11:30 - 13:00

🏠A new home-based TB detection model in Uganda is delivering big results. The Union, Uganda MoH, and the CDC screened 1,700+ household contacts, diagnosing TB in 80 people (many without symptoms), and achieved a 95% TPT completion rate. 📖 : tinyurl.com/4jrx4yxa

🧠💡AI is helping the fight against TB. In Bangui, CAR, The Union, EPCON and the NTP are using AI to identify hidden TB hotspots and improve surveilance in low resource settings. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yrs3zxbs

The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 is currently open for nominations; closing date 10 September Nominees for this prestigious award will be clinicians and/or researchers from any country who have completed post-graduate training (MPH, PhD, MD or post-doc) tinyurl.com/4hnyu9dz

Last year was impressive in many ways for The Union. Here are some highlights: 🔍 TB Dept led research projects highlighting the need for improvement in TB management cross Africa 💊 We launched a TB preventive treatment study in India, Bhutan, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

The Union's TB Undernutrition working group is hosting a webinar with Dr Matthew Saunders. 📅 21 August at 2pm CET Dr Saunders (@lshtm.bsky.social‬) will share findings from a new analysis that redefines the relationship between BMI and TB incidence. 📧 To join email [email protected].

The Union World Conference on Lung Health is a vital source of the latest breakthroughs in tuberculosis and lung disease. 📰 Even now, studies presented last year in Bali, Indonesia are being published, like the endTB-Q trial in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🏆Nominations are now open for the Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025. The award recognises emerging researchers conducting promising work focused on reducing the disease burden of TB and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Nominations close 10 Sept: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...