Abdul Kalam Azad is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Public Health (JSPH) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU). Azad is an activist scholar dedicated to transdisciplinary research and transformative practices through knowledge co-creation. His work centers around issues of epistemic justice, resilience, and well-being.

He serves as the founding programme director for the MSc in Global Health and Human Development, an online postgraduate programme in global health focusing on human development and the capabilities approach.  

He previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Health Programme at Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. At Athena, he led the development and formative evaluation of consensus-building methodology to address medical desertification in Europe in the “Action for Health and Equity: Addressing Medical Deserts” project funded by the European Commission. 

He also served as a Protective Writing Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, and a Research Fellow at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati.