• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Order of Canada

• Member of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: May 13, 2004
  • Invested on: September 09, 2005

  Professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, Noralou Roos is an innovative administrator and researcher. She played a determining role in co-founding the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Now director emeritus and senior researcher, she has helped pioneer the use of administrative data to identify the health care patterns and trends of Manitobans over the past three decades. Highly regarded by colleagues and policy makers across the country, she has shared her expertise as a member of the Prime Minister's National Forum on Health and the Board of Directors of the Medical Research Council.

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: May 12, 2016
  • Invested on: February 17, 2017

  For contributing to Canadian health care by developing evidence-based policy, and for promoting and disseminating medical research with a particular focus on children’s well-being.
  
  Noralou Roos is a champion of evidence-based research in the development of health care policy. As professor of medicine at the University of Manitoba, she has spearheaded such programs as the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network and leads the web-based EvidenceNetwork.ca, which communicates research evidence through traditional and social media. More recently, she has been working with physicians to recognize and treat the effects of poverty on patients, and to improve access to health care for low-income Canadians.
  
  This is a promotion within the Order.