Helal Uddin

Background

About Helal Uddin

Helal Uddin is working as a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at East West University, Bangladesh. He obtained his Joint Master's Degree in Public Health in Disasters at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the University of Oviedo, Spain, with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He completed his B.S.S. and M.S.S. in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. Previously, he worked at Eastern University as a Lecturer of Sociology. He also serves as Director (Education & Training) at the South Asia Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST). His strong translation skills rewarded him with the position of Regional Editor of Global Dialogue, a magazine of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Helal Uddin, along with his colleagues, secured two competitive research grants for 2025–2026: one from the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) and another from the East West University Centre for Research and Training (EWUCRT). In recognition of his academic contributions, he has been awarded the Best Researcher Award, the Best Presenter Award (3-Minute Research Presentation) at the department level for senior lecturers, and the Publication Reward 2024 from East West University. His research focuses on health inequality, life-course and aging, social determinants of health, childhood adversity and child/adult health, and climate change/disaster and health.