ROOS, Noralou P. –Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba
Noralou Roos founded the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and created a population database for understanding why some people are healthy and others are not. She received CFI funding to create Canada's first data laboratory and was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. Citations to Dr. Roos' work place her among the top 100 Canadian scientists (all fields, all institutions) according to The Institute of Scientific Information. She was a member of the Prime Minister's National Forum on Health, the Medical Research Council, the Council setting up the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and awarded the Order of Canada.