Health. She is the Coordinator of the National Reference Centre for MDR-TB, the Director of the National Programme for TB, and Associate Professor at the Medical School and at the Institute of Public Health of Porto University (Porto, Portugal). In terms of international appointments, Raquel Duarte is Vice- President of the Europe Region Officers of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and Chair of the European Respiratory Society’s Tuberculosis Group. Raquel Duarte combines interests in public health with clinical, academic and research activities. Her main fields of interest are TB in vulnerable populations, the effects of social and economic determinants on TB incidence, LTBI, MDR-TB and XDR-TB, and NTM. Adrian Rendon Adrian Rendon is a specialist in internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and the University Hospital of Monterrey of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico), where he has run a busy TB clinic since 1994. Adrian Rendon was trained in both Mexico and the USA. He graduated with honours as the first of his class, and later became Chief Resident of Internal Medicine and Chief Fellow of Pulmonary Medicine at the University Hospital of Monterrey. For the last 15 years, Adrian Rendon has lead a TB Research, Prevention and Care Center in Monterrey (Mexico) that has become a referral centre for the Nuevo Leon State TB Program. The centre was something of a pioneer in Mexico and Latin America, as it was the first to routinely perform DST in all new TB cases, and has been doing so since 1994. In 2013, the Nuevo Leon State Public Health Society officially recognised his work in TB. Adrian Rendon is the leading clinician involved in the local TB consilium and a consultant for the Mexican TB Consilium. He also is a founding member of the international European Respiratory Society (ERS)/WHO Tuberculosis Consilium. Adrian Rendon’s research focuses on several fields: basic, clinical and epidemiological TB topics, COPD, asthma, coccidioidomycosis and pneumonia, among others. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (h-index: 15), has participated in several COPD and TB guidelines and has collaborated with several international journals as a xii https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10031218