Projects 1970-1980
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1970 - 1980 1981 - 1990 1991 - 2005 2006 - 2010
Disability
Project: Access to premises & employment for disabled people
From 1975-79, as consultant to the Royal Association for Disability
& Rehabilitation (RADAR), he designed a research and outreach
programme to gain access for disabled people to public premises and to
places of employment, arts and sports centres and nature reserves,
publishing several books and articles on these topics up to 1989 and
lecturing at the Fire Services Technical College. He obtained additional
funding from the Manpower Services Commission and the Disabled Living
Foundation.
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Population & health
Project: Maternal & Child Health in Haiti
Jacmel
In September 1977, audited national programme of
maternal & child health in Haiti on behalf of Marie Stopes
International for report to ODA Population Bureau.
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Project: Fertility & Nutrition in Kwara State, Nigeria
Designed a fertility study in Nigeria for the ODA Population Bureau
(under Philip Payne’s tutelage of the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, 1976-77) and funded by ODA Population Bureau and
International Planned Parenthood Federation, in association with the
University of Ilorin (Dr. Eldred Parry). This led, inter alia, to
the AHRTAG (a CIBA funded project) publication, "Diarrhoea
Dialogue".
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Family Planning
Project: Ghana National Family Planning Programme
Working for the Ford Foundation in Ghana he designed and managed a
programme for commercial distribution of non-prescription
contraceptives, for the Ghana National Family Planning Programme
(1970-72), providing the model for the Indian programme and still
regarded in Ghana as seminal work.
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Community Health
In the mid to late 1960s, Struan conducted research into
infant feeding practices among Lagos women, Nigeria, working at LUTH
Department of Community Health under Dr Adeniyi-Jones, the late Prof.
Olukoye Ransome-Kuti and Dr David Morley at the London Institute of
Child Health. For this work Struan was awarded a Ford Foundation
Mid-Career Fellowship, taken up at the University of California,
Berkeley, School of Public Health (1969-70).
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