Rates of cardiac arrest are high. So, why don’t more people know CPR?
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Health activist, Medreach Pty Ltd., Bond University
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Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Director, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Michigan
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Honorary Academic, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London
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Professor and Associate Chair Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
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Instructor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University
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Director, Essex Autonomy Project, University of Essex
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Senior Researcher for the Human Rights in Care Homes project, University of Essex
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Emergency Medicine Physician and Lecturer, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Lecturer, Paramedicine, Monash University
