Colleen M. Norris

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Colleen M. Norris is Professor and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Nursing and an Adjunct Professor in the faculties of Medicine and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta and Cavarzan Chair in Women’s Health Research. Her research focuses on women’s cardiovascular health across the life course and the menopausal transition.

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Nov 12, 2026

by Colleen M. Norris

Women’s health is public health. Why are women paying?

We have spent generations treating the ovary as a reproductive organ. We have removed it to treat women’s distress, excluded women from research because they might become pregnant and argued over who should control their reproductive choices. We have been, however, much slower to organize health care around what ovarian hormones do throughout women’s lives.