Summary: Detroit built its public health departments back in the 1800s, when cholera was rampant. But in 2012 the city gutted that department and privatized it. Now, after its historic bankruptcy, public health is back under city management. But it’s a shell of a what it once was. The man in charge of building it back up is Abdul El-Sayed, a 31-year old Arab American born and raised in metro Detroit. I spent a day with El-Sayed to see what goes into rebuilding an entire division whose main purpose is to
