Abdul El-Sayed
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. He is the Chair at Southpaw Michigan. His book, Healing Politics (Abrams Press) diagnoses our country's epidemic of insecurity and the empathy politics we will need to treat it, and he is the host of "America Dissected," a podcast by Crooked Media, which goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health.
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- Abdul El-Sayed website - About
- Wikipedia profile
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (born October 31, 1984) is an American politician, former public health professor, and civil servant who served as the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan from 2023 to 2025. He was a candidate in Michigan's 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary election, placing second out of three candidates. In September 2018, he founded Southpaw Michigan, a political action committee, to help elect other progressive candidates in Michigan.
El-Sayed was executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit from 2015 to 2017.
- Abdul for U.S. Senate
- Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
- Biography for the 41st Annual Minority Health Conference
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- Healing Politics announcement
"Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of a Political Epidemic" is Dr. El-Sayed's personal story interwoven with history, science, and lessons he learned campaigning for governor. The book offers a diagnosis of what he sees as the underlying epidemic of insecurity and lays out how we can heal it and its consequences by building on the empathy that draws us together.