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Jane Wilson-Howarth (born 1954) is a British physician, lecturer and author. She has written three travel health guides and two travel narratives.

Early life
Wilson-Howarth was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1954 and her education began at Stoneleigh East County Infants School. In 1976 she was awarded a travelling scholarship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; this funded a life-changing six months in Nepal.

Education and career
Graduated in zoology from Plymouth, completed an MSc in parasitology from Oxford University and a medical qualification from Southampton University. She currently works as a general practitioner in Cambridgeshire

Books
Wilson-Howarth has published three travel health guides. The Essential Guide to Travel Health: don’t let Bugs Bites and Bowels Spoil your trip (2009) is now in its fifth edition and was originally launched as Bugs Bites & Bowels. Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide is an accessible family manual and How to Shit Around the World (2006) is full of toilet humour. Her first book, when she wrote as Jane Wilson, Lemurs of the Lost World (1990, 1995) is about expeditions to Madagascar. A Glimpse of Eternal Snows (2007) is a travel memoir set in Nepal.