She's an institution around Tauranga. You will know her.

Because Rosalie's voice is the one that comes up with the sun each morning on the SunLive's weather report.

But there's more to Rosalie. Now her academic background is being tapped – because after providing that spiritual uplift each morning for SunLive readers, Rosalie Liddle Crawford will now also serve as a policy advisor on their physical well-being, their health needs.

Rosalie's been appointed to the new Bay of Plenty Health Consumer Council – an eleven strong advisory body which will ensure patient and community interests are represented when the Bay of Plenty District Health Board develops its services.

The council, made up health professionals and experts, will work in partnership with the BOPDHB and advise on issues including the development of health service priorities, growing patient safety and clinical quality and reducing instances of injustice and unfairness.

Apart from knowing when the next cold front is advancing and writing life style stories for Sun Media's Life Plus Style supplement, Rosalie is also a medical scientist who has specialised in immunohaematology and medical microbiology.

She began her career at Tauranga Hospital where she will now be advising.

Rosalie helped develop an online health and social services directory for both the BOP and Lakes DHB regions, before helping launch a similar directory for Canterbury. Her work involved engaging with iwi, councils, health and social service organisations and businesses; providing service navigation; and setting up the volunteer project ‘Rise Up Tauranga'. The group assisted Cantabrians relocate to the region after the 2011 earthquakes.

Rosalie's also a manager of the enormously popular and influential Papamoa Facebook page, the Mount Maunganui page and a number of others.

The full Bay of Plenty Health Consumer Council is Adrienne von Tunzelmann, Florence Trout, John Powell, Juliet Genet, Lisa Murphy, Maz McKevitt, Rosalie Liddle Crawford, Sue Horne, Sue Matthews, Tessa Mackenzie and Wol Hansen.

The health consumer council will meet monthly and holds its first meeting tomorrow.

John Powell will act as Chair and Sue Horne as Deputy Chair. But first the weather forecast and Rosalie will have that for us, as usual, as expected, on SunLive again tomorrow morning.