Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth is a physician who raised three small sons on Rajapur, an island in the middle of the largest tributary of the Ganges so she knows what it is to improvise. She has worked in the area of child-survival in several remote parts of Asia with Save the Children, USAID, Water Aid and other charities. She knows all too well what a guilt-trip parenting can be, and aims to empower families to follow their dreams so that parenthood is inspiring not inhibiting. At present Jane is based in Cambridge where she is a General Practitioner and also medical director of a travel immunisation clinic. She teaches and writes extensively on travel and health. She has published six books so far. Her website www.wilson-howarth.com includes travel health tips which she also tweets as @longdropdoc.
Dr Matthew Ellis started his family in Kathmandu where he was based running a research programme for Great Ormond Street's Institute of Child Health. Before this his social anthropology studies at Cambridge University took him to the Peruvian Amazon and during his medical training he spent time in Sudan and Ethiopia. He has worked and published on child health with colleagues in Bangladesh, India and Uganda. He has advised the World Health Organisation on newborn health. He is now a NHS Consultant Community Paediatrician in Bristol and continues to enjoy travelling with (and without) his teenage daughters.