Abdul Kalam Azad

About

Abdul Kalam Azad is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Public Health (JSPH) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU). He serves as the Programme Director for MSc Global Health and Human Development and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Admissions & Outreach.

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 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 serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York.

Employment

• O. P. Jindal Global University Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences Research Fellow
  2016 - 2017
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  ? - 2024

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• Borderland Poetics Against New Colonialisms: Assam, Kashmir, and Central India
  The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_254-2
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• An Introduction to Global Health
  2024 DOI: 10.4324/9781003408765-4
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• “A March Is Beginning, a March for Freedom”: Miya Poetry as Decolonial Praxis Toward Justice and Liberation
  Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67035-0_19
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• Examining citizenship regimes in Assam through a structural and cultural violence lens
  American Journal of Community Psychology 2024 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12715
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• Digitising Citizenship and Measuring Genealogies: The NRC and Algorithms in Assam
  Conversations on Data Justice in India: Combatting Algorithmic Exclusions and Building Fairer Frameworks 2023
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• Miya poetry: Poetics, politics and polemics
  Citizenship in Contemporary Times the Indian Context 2022 DOI: 10.4324/9781003345152-7
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• From rhetorical “inclusion” toward decolonial futures: Building communities of resistance against structural violence
  American Journal of Community Psychology 2022 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12561
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• Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry
  Journal of Human Rights Practice 2022 DOI: 10.1093/jhuman/huac055
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• Transnational Research Collectives as “Constellations of Co-Resistance”: Counterstorytelling, Interweaving Struggles, and Decolonial Love
  Qualitative Inquiry 2022 DOI: 10.1177/10778004211068202
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• Understanding Statelessness and Resilience in Assam, India
  2022
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