25 Facts About Jane Wilson-Howarth

Jane Wilson-Howarth has written three travel health guides, two travel narratives, a novel and a series of wildlife adventures for children.

Jane Wilson-Howarth grew up in Stoneleigh, a suburb just north of Ewell Village.

Jane Wilson-Howarth is married to Simon Howarth and the couple live between East Anglia and Kathmandu.

Jane Wilson-Howarth attended Stoneleigh East County Infants, Junior and Senior Schools, and Cheam High School, but was challenged by dyslexia.

Jane Wilson-Howarth left school at 16 to study for an Ordinary National Diploma in sciences at Ewell Technical College.

Jane Wilson-Howarth then studied biological sciences at Plymouth Polytechnic, concentrating on invertebrates, pollution studies, environmental resource management, and completed a research project on cave microclimate and its influence on collembola.

Jane Wilson-Howarth then studied for a medical degree at the University of Southampton.

Jane Wilson-Howarth was elected a fellow of the British Global and Travel Health Association in 2017.

Since qualifying as a doctor of medicine, Jane Wilson-Howarth has worked in general medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology in Swindon, orthopaedics in Salisbury and paediatrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Jane Wilson-Howarth was employed on various child survival and hygiene promotion projects in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, India and Nepal.

Jane Wilson-Howarth served as a National Health Service general practitioner in Cambridgeshire for more than 15 years when she taught Cambridge medical students about general practice and international health.

Jane Wilson-Howarth lived in Nepal from 1993 until 1998 and then moved back there in 2017 where she worked as a volunteer writing clinical guidelines for Nepali paramedics and mentoring clinicians in remote mountain villages through the charity PHASE.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has contributed material to the bilingual Covid19 Nepal Support website and she has articles about Covid-19 in the online Nepali newspaper Setopati.

Jane Wilson-Howarth started caving and scuba diving while an undergraduate in Plymouth pursuing ecological studies.

Jane Wilson-Howarth did some cave diving and was probably the first woman to do decompression dives in the subterranean "lake" in Pridhamsleigh Cavern in Devon.

Jane Wilson-Howarth spent six months on an overland trip to the Himalayan region; this was with a small team intent on finding new caves in Pakistan, India and Nepal and documenting what creatures lived inside them.

Jane Wilson-Howarth organised a medical elective with Save the Children in Ladakh.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has appeared at literary festivals including twice at the Cambridge Wordfest and has contributed to several anthologies, mainly of travel writing.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has written more than 200 travel health features for Wanderlust and some for Conde Nast Traveller.

Jane Wilson-Howarth often gives talks and readings especially in East Anglia, and is a member of the Society of Authors as well as Cambridge Writers.

Jane Wilson-Howarth is active in the innovative Walden Writers cooperative, set up in Saffron Walden, Essex, by authors Amy Corzine and Martyn Everett in 2008, to cross-promote the work of its members, organise literary events, publish a magazine and exchange information and support.

Amy Corzine, Rosemary Hayes, Victor Watson, and Jane Wilson-Howarth collaborated on a feature on writing for children for Juno magazine.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has given television interviews live on BBC Breakfast as well as on ITV Tyne Tees and Sky Travel, and has presented on BBC One's Rip-off Britain.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has contributed to national BBC Radio 4 programmes including Excess Baggage, Breakaway, The Living World and Medicine Now, and World Nomads.

Jane Wilson-Howarth has been interviewed live for radio programmes broadcast in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Ireland and innumerable local radio stations and is often on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.