Marion Foggin is a community paediatrician. She earned her medical degrees at University of St Andrews and University of Manchester. Postgraduate qualifications include MRCP and MRCPCH and she gained a Masters in Community Child Heath at the Institute of Child Health, University of London. Following 10 years of medical experience in the UK including her final position as a Consultant Community Paediatrician in Northumberland as well as other development experience in inner city areas with high unemployment, she has since 1998 led the health and community development work of the international NGO Plateau Perspectives in Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region, China. While still contributing to the work of Plateau Perspectives in China, she has also contributed to projects in the Kyrgyz Republic related to the health and wellbeing of children with disabilities and is preparing to start further health development projects more widely in Central Asia. Her main focus remains on rural livelihoods and the wellbeing of pastoral communities in high mountain regions