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- ↑ "Baseline Research Program".
- ↑ "Monash University Accident Research Centre, MUARC Responsive Timeline Slider".
- ↑ https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/1420483/MUARC-Annual-Report-2017.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ "Baseline Research Program".
- ↑ "WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention".
- ↑ "Systems Safety".
