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Noralou P. Roos
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    Noralou P. Roos

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    Noralou Preston Roos FRSC OC (born April 21, 1942, in Pomona, California) is an American-Canadian professor emerita of community health sciences. She has won several awards for her work in health policy, public health, publicly funded health care, and advocacy of evidence-based medicine and health promotion.

    Biography

    Noralou Preston grew up in California and Oregon with a sister and two brothers. Their parents were married for 67 years. She graduated with an A.B. in 1963 from Stanford University. She married Leslie Leon Roos, Jr. on June 17, 1963, in Santa Clara, California. He was born in 1940 in San Francisco. She and her husband both became graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated with a Ph.D. in political science in 1968 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her Ph.D. thesis The Turkish Administrative Elite was supervised by Frederick W. Frey (1929–2020). She was at Northwestern University for three years before joining the University of Manitoba in 1972.

    Noralou P. Roos is a professor emerita in the Department of Community Health Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. From 1973 to 1998, she was a National Health Research Scientist supported by Canada's National Health Research and Development Program. She has received numerous national and international fellowships and grants. She has published extensively in books and journals in collaboration with her husband. As of the year 2021, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, she is among the leading 100 Canadian scientists in terms of citations to her publications.

    Noralou Roos was the founding co-director, with her husband Leslie Roos, of the University of Manitoba's Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) and became a co-director of the Get Your Benefits (GYB) project supported by The Winnipeg Foundation. She and her collaborators have researched variations in the medical practices of physicians, outcomes in surgery, factors in the quality of medical care, variations in health care use, and quality, reliability, and use of data in managing the Canadian health care system,

    Leslie and Noralou Roos have a daughter and three grandchildren.

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