Alex Chang is a fourth-year undergraduate studying biology & political science with a minor in photojournalism at Northeastern University. Researching with the Israeli emergency medical services (EMS), he was exposed to how health technology could bridge gaps in emergency medicine, especially in low resource medical environments and areas of conflict. Working with NYU Langone Health’s Emergency Department, his perspective broadened as he investigated how the voices of those in palliative care could be empowered through telemedicine. Combining his background in medical technology with his clinical EMS experiences, Alex’s research into refrigerated backpacks works alongside the Center’s Boda Boda team to augment temperature-dependent medical transport viability for vaccine outreach campaigns and NTD lab samples.