Robert Strang (physician)

Robert Strang ONS[1] (born 1959) is a Canadian physician and the chief medical officer for the province of Nova Scotia.

[citation needed]In that role, Strang has been an anti-smoking advocate and an outspoken critic of pseudoscience[6] and misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[7] In 2018, he was with Theresa Tam the co-chair of the special advisory committee on the epidemic of opioid overdoses in Canada.

In daily press conferences, he provides updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the public health effort to respond to it.

[2] In November 2020, The Rotary Club of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia presented Dr. Robert Strang with the coveted Paul Harris Fellowship Award.