Spring Lake, New Jersey

“With technology advancing at increasing speeds, and with new tools available to us, it is even
more important now to narrow the gaps in healthcare inequity than ever before.”

Annabel Sparano is a senior high school student at Ranney School. She has been involved in community healthcare initiatives for the prior three years. She serves on multiple youth advisory councils for health organizations in New Jersey and recently joined the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) on a national level. Annabel has coauthored manuscripts identifying healthcare discrepancies among patient populations with different insurance status. She has a committed interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in bioinformatics and precision medicine. She has already pursued projects studying ways AI can help limit healthcare inequities for our future and plans to continue such study in college.