Idaho Vaccination Policy Memo

Lasya Arvind

Too few children enter kindergarten vaccinated against contagious, preventable diseases in Idaho. We further expand on the problem’s symptoms, root causes, and stakeholders to help create practical, actionable state policies.

published 10/28/2026

Addressing Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Haiti

Anu Marimuthu

For modern medicine to continue to efficiently treat infectious diseases, we must address AMR outbreaks before we reach high levels of superbug prevalence, or bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi that are resistant to multiple different antibiotics.

published 10/28/2026

More Than Medicine: Rethinking Immigrant Healthcare Access

Kimberly Flores, Lasya Arvind, Dhyana Magesh

Walking into a hospital is stressful for anyone. But for many Latino immigrants in the U.S., this stress is exacerbated by a multitude of factors. It lies beneath the weight of everything they came here carrying, families they put first, sacrifices made across borders and a promise that this country would give them the chance to build something better.

published 10/28/2026

20 CFR § 655 122 and H-2A Worker Regulations Policy Breakdown

Adhip Ghosh, Lasya Arvind

The lack of secure immigration status and absence of federal labor protections make many farm laborers vulnerable to exploitation. It is up to the states to offer protection to these workers, but only 14 out of the 50 states currently guarantee workers’ compensation for agricultural workers without exceptions.

published 09/26/2026

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Policy Breakdown

Avantika Arvind, Lasya Arvind

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act or EMTALA, was a federal act enacted in 1986 by Congress that required Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to screen and stabilize any patient experiencing an emergency medical condition, regardless of their ability to pay.

published 09/26/2026

RP: A database that centralizes healthcare management and resource sharing in times of crisis

Lasya Arvind, Candra Kou, Anu Marimuthu, Arjun Naik

To support hospitals and clinics in times of crisis, we designed RP, a secure, transparent database that pools excess and underutilized resources from hospitals, non-profit organizations, and government agencies across regions and organizes them for healthcare systems serving vulnerable communities to pull from.

published 09/25/2026