Dr Lindsay Edouard

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Lindsay Edouard studied at the Royal College Port Louis and obtained the English scholarship in 1967, this first place on the science side being accompanied by the gold medal of the Chamber of Agriculture. He graduated in medicine in 1974 from the University of London where he also obtained an MSc.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and its Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care besides the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and became a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and Freeman of the City of London.

His academic appointments, as lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London and professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, included the analyses of administrative databases for an evidence-based approach to service management. Stressing the social responsibility of health professionals, he promoted their role beyond the clinical setting for a population perspective and advanced the international discourse on a rights-based approach to service provision. He served as secretary of the Section of Medical Education at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

His career with the United Nations started in 1983 as a medical officer in the Maternal and Child Health Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva. From 1995, he served the United Nations Population Fund as Project Director for Training for Reproductive Health in subSaharan Africa, Senior Adviser in New York and finally as Representative in Algeria until retirement to Mauritius in 2011.

He held office with the Canadian Medical Association, Commonwealth Medical Association, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and International Planned Parenthood Federation besides being a member of the editorial boards of the African Journal of Reproductive Health, the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada and BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health where he served as International Advisory Editor.