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Heart Foundation backs AUT AED research

AUT’s Dr Verity Todd has won funding from Heart Foundation NZ for her research into phone-sized AEDs.

Helping hand for cyclone-hit communities

Mel McAulay, Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Paramedicine, lent a helping hand after Cyclone Gabrielle wreaked havoc across the North Island.

Good design and normalising disability

Harnessing the lived experience of disabled people is key to changing the face of disability and design at both a societal and personal level.

New authority could transform Māori health

Dr Heather Came and Adjunct Professor Dominic O’Sullivan weigh-in on the establishment of a new Maori health authority in The Conversation.

Assisted dying referendum

NZ’s law lacks necessary detail to make a fully informed decision, says Dr Rhona Winnington.

Party politics in local elections

AUT research shows that candidates affiliated to a central political party are more likely to win seats in Auckland local government.

Inequality in access to life-saving AEDs

A study by AUT and St John highlights a worrying discrepancy in the placement of life-saving AEDs (automated external defibrillators) in New Zealand.

Traumatic Brain Injury Network

An online Q+A session and introduction to the new Traumatic Brain Injury Network.

62% increase in AUT researchers

Growing expertise to help New Zealand and the world

Ready to take on the world

Through her AUT Edge Award, Sofie Heaphy organised a student paramedic conference, volunteered for St John and co-ordinated a volunteer trip to Peru.