We need to ensure that America gets the right people in place to combat the coronavirus. Dr. Debra Furr Holden is an epidemiologist and human rights activist, and the right person for the job. We need to ensure that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris puts her on their team. Sign the petition below to ensure that they are aware of your desire for change and the urgency that we all have to put end to this pandemic! We need honesty and experience, and that is what Dr. Furr-Holden brings to the table! Sign this petition to get Dr. Furr Holden on the National Coronavirus Task Force!

Dr. Debra Furr-Holden is a noted epidemiologist and human rights activist, who attended Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (BA Natural Sciences and Public Health, 1996) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD, 1999). She is currently the Associate Dean for Public Health Integration and Director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD; #U54MD011227). She also serves as the MSU Co-Director of the Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center. As an epidemiologist and classically-trained public health professional with expertise in drug and alcohol dependence epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and prevention science she initiated the Drug Investigations, Violence, and Environmental Studies Laboratory (The DIVE Studies Lab) at The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in 2005. In 2007, the group moved to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  

In January 2016, she moved back to Flint and became one of the C.S. Mott Endowed Professors of Public Health at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Flint Campus. In joining the Division of Public Health, Dr. Furr-Holden immediately began working with grassroots community partners as well as academic partners and other stakeholders within and outside Michigan State University.