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Audrey L Blewer

Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health
Box 104006 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
2200 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27705

Overview


Dr. Blewer is an epidemiologist and resuscitation scientist who has focused her areas of inquiry within the domains of resuscitation science, epidemiology, implementation science, and health disparities. She is in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, and School of Nursing. She also has a joint appointment at Duke-NUS Medical School in the Department of Health Services and Systems Research.  

Dr. Blewer has published in several noteworthy journals such as Circulation, Lancet Public Health, Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, and Critical Care Medicine. She is recognized in the field of resuscitation science nationally and internationally. Dr. Blewer is contributing to the upcoming American Heart Association Guidelines writing group for Resuscitation Education and serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Resuscitation Plus. Dr. Blewer works on interdisciplinary research projects at both Duke and Duke-NUS Medical Center

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health · 2026 - Present Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences · 2026 - Present Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments
Associate Professor in the School of Nursing · 2026 - Present School of Nursing

Recent News Items


Published April 28, 2025
Washington Post
What to know to save a life: The key to cardiac arrest survival
Published November 12, 2024
Bystanders More Likely to Perform CPR with Instructions from 911 Operators
Published June 5, 2024
Helping Women Receive A Lifesaving Intervention

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Recent Scholarly Works


Building a Global Research Network for Fair, Accountable, Interpretable, and Responsible AI in Emergency Care: Protocol for a FAIR-EC Study.

Journal article JMIR Res Protoc · August 4, 2026 BACKGROUND: The current landscape of emergency care (EC) is marked by high demand, leading to issues such as emergency department boarding, overcrowding, and subsequent delays that impact the quality and safety of patient care. Integrating data science int ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sex and Age-Based Disparities in Bystander Interventions for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Texas.

Journal article Prehosp Emerg Care · 2026 OBJECTIVES: Prior studies identify disparities in bystander interventions for female out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, particularly for those of reproductive age. We sought to evaluate for sex and reproductive age-based disparities in bystand ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Implementation of a prehospital emergency care system evaluation tool (PECSET)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National University of Singapore · 2025 - 2028

North Carolina Sickle Cell Data Collection

Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by NC Department of Health and Human Services · 2024 - 2027

Racial and ethnic disparities in patient outcomes and intra-arrest resuscitation practices for in-hospital cardiac arrest

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pittsburgh · 2024 - 2027

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Education


University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine · 2018 Ph.D.
University of Florida · 2008 M.P.H.