The Accessible Healthcare Team focuses on identifying the disparities that challenge how, when, and where quality healthcare services can be accessed by communities. The primary goal of this project is to understand and address the gap between rural populations and quality healthcare while understanding geographic, socioeconomic, and technological factors that contribute to barriers to care. We are developing partnerships with NGOs in Tamil Nadu, India to work with local physicians in building and establishing a telehealth clinic, which will utilize modern software and technology to provide adequate diagnostic testing facilities and the presence of qualified medical personnel in the community. We plan on strategizing with our partners and stakeholders to tackle the key issues such as transportation and affordability for our target beneficiaries.

​Our Preventative Health and Management team aims to identify critical public health needs expressed by rural communities and work with local partners to innovate locally-informed preventative action and long-term management solutions. Our team is currently focused on projects such as hosting medical camps, both general and specialized, that address specific needs of the target community. Based on our findings from our general medical camp in 2023 regarding common health management needs amongst community stakeholders, we are currently partnering with an NGO local to Tamil Nadu to provide ophthalmology screening services and prescription eyeglasses in Vadamanappakkam. In addition to these camps, follow-up will be conducted by providing transportation to local hospitals, and other initiatives to help foster long-term wellbeing. Through these projects, we hope to learn more about how rural communities can effectively raise awareness of preventative health and sustainably promote health management strategies.