Abdul El Sayed: podcast appearances and interviews

Abdul El Sayed is an American epidemiologist, public health official, and politician. He served as the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services of Wayne County, Michigan, from 2023 to 2025. As a progressive Democrat, he was a candidate for governor of Michigan in the 2018 election and is running for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. El Sayed is a graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Oxford's Oriel College, having attended on a full-tuition scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship, respectively. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University. He has also served as an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University and was the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit from 2015 to 2017.