Abdul Kalam Azad

Abdul Kalam Azad, PhD
Assistant Professor

Assistant Dean - Academic Affairs

Programme Director

MSc in Global Health and Human Development

School of Public Health & Human Development,

O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India

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 the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati.

Professional Membership

Development Studies Association
Human Development and Capabilities Association
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division (48), American Psychological Association

Editorial Work

Editorial Board Member

Discover Social Science and Health (Springer Nature)

Academic Peer Reviewer

Development Policy Review (Wiley)
Journal of Peace Psychology (APA)
Asian Ethnicity (Routledge)
Health Systems and Policy (OUP)

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