Kevin Mortimer is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), an Honorary Consultant at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Director of Lung Health for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). He is also Deputy Director of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and Tuberculosis in Africa at LSTM, Director of the Pan African Thoracic Society Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical and Operations Research (MECOR) Programme and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in developing solutions to the lung health needs of the world’s poor including tackling global inequalities in access to basic effective approaches to the prevention and control of lung diseases – like access to clean air.