Jane Colby

Jane Colby is a British advocate for paediatric patients and a former patient of severe ME triggered by a viral infection. (Colby refers to the virus as "polio-like" or "related to polio.") She was a former head teacher and a member of the National Association of Educational Inspectors, Advisors, and Consultants. She is the Executive Director of Tymes Trust, the longest established national UK service for children and young people with ME and their families.

Authored

 * 2013, ME - The New Plague 2
 * 2007, Special problems of children with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the enteroviral link.
 * 1999, Zoe's Win, a book for children with ME
 * 1997, Long Term Sickness Absence due to ME/CFS in UK Schools: An Epidemiological Study With Medical and Educational Implications, coauthored by Jane Colby and Elizabeth G Dowsett, is the largest ever epidemiological study of ME in the UK which revealed that ME is the most frequent cause of long-term sickness absence from school.
 * 1996, ME - The New Plague, about the connection between ME and poliomyelitis.

Talks and Interviews

 * 2006, Speaker at the 1st Invest in ME International ME Conference on Children and Education: Incidence, clusters and specific problems of youngsters with M.E. DVD available

Online presence

 * Twitter

Learn more

 * 1997, Long Term Sickness Absence due to ME/CFS in UK Schools: An Epidemiological Study With Medical and Educational Implications