A. Kayum Ahmed is an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of Public Health in New York where he teaches health and human rights advocacy. Ahmed holds a Ph.D. in Education from Columbia University as well as various law degrees from the universities of Oxford, Cape Town, and Leiden. In addition, he has degrees in anthropology and theology. His interdisciplinary research interests include human rights, vaccine justice, Indigenous epistemologies, and decolonizing the global health architecture.