Natalia Linos: Scientists have been under attack

The executive director of Harvard's François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Natalia Linos, is a social epidemiologist who has been involved in policy throughout her career, but who probably wouldn't be running for Congress if it wasn't for Covid-19. 

In an interview with Kathimerini, she explains that the pandemic has turned health into a political issue, forcing scientists like her to take a stance - in her case, to run for Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional District. 

Having warned that the US is not well positioned to tackle the epidemic due to social inequalities and anti-immigrant sentiment, her campaign is focused on a science and equity platform that she attributes to her religious, moral-based Greek upbringing. A mom of three young children, she aspires to unite the Greek-American community and promises to be a strong ally and advocate for...