Prof. Noralou Preston Roos
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Manitoba
Election Year
2009
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Medical Sciences
Department
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy / Community Health Sciences
Keywords
social determinants, health, big data, health policy, COVID-19, Covid-19, corona virus
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.
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.