Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed is a physician who previously led the Detroit Health Department, rebuilding it after the city's bankruptcy, and later ran Wayne County's Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services, which serves about 1.8 million residents. He holds a medical degree from Columbia University and a second doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and graduated from the University of Michigan with highest distinction. In 2020 he served on a presidential Unity Task Force on health care, and he has written a book on national health-insurance policy.

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