As part of the 2017-2018 Epidemics Science Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the physician and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed plots the evolution of his career-from helping to rebuild the Detroit Health Department following the city's municipal bankruptcy to his run for governor of Michigan.

Introduction by Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health