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Abdul El-Sayed
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Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the United States senator-elect from Michigan. He is the Chair of Southpaw Michigan. In 2018, he ran for Governor of Michigan on an unapologetically progressive platform. He previously served as Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department. He earned a doctorate in Public Health from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and his medical degree from Columbia University as a Soros Fellow.

Country
United States
Field
Politics
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Affiliations

  • Southpaw Michigan

    Southpaw Michigan is an organisation where El-Sayed serves as Chair. [1]

  • Detroit Health Department

    The Detroit Health Department is a public health agency; El-Sayed was its Executive Director. [2]

Sources

  1. [1]politics.uchicago.edu
  2. [2]ihpi.umich.edu

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