Apurv Sibal

Apurv Sibal
Apurv Sibal

Apurv Sibal

Health Equity Challenge 2024 Finalist

PROJECT: A multi-tiered Braille system for vision care education for aging immigrants in multiple languages and tailored to different levels of vision impairment.

 

Apurv Sibal is a graduate student at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and has been passionate about health care equity since a very young age.

While working as a consultant at WorldQuant Predictive, Sibal advised top health care companies to tackle problems ranging from rare disease prediction to reducing hospital readmission rates.

With his strong quantitative, qualitative, and analytical skills, and a background in health care and data analytics, he hopes to facilitate equitable access to quality health care and envisions a world where equitable health care is not a privilege but a fundamental right.

Driven by a personal connection to vision challenges, I have witnessed firsthand that vision care is an area of health that is often sidelined in general health care discourse, yet its impact on an individual’s quality of life is profound. As one grows older, vision impairment becomes an increasing concern. For aging immigrants, this concern is twofold. They not only face the natural decline of vision due to age, but also grapple with navigating a foreign health care system, linguistic barriers, cultural differences, and often, limited financial resources. I hope to solve this by commercializing multi-tiered Braille System for Vision Care to assist aging immigrants in California.

Apurv Sibal