Dr  Ismail Haque

Room No. 110A, Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi- 110025
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Academic Qualification

2010 B.Sc (H) in Geography
2012 M.Sc in Geography
2016 M.Phil in Population Studies
2022 PhD in Regional Development (Population Studies)

Position held

Research Consultant at Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi
Research Associate at Swasti- The Health Catalyst, New Delhi
Research Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi

Publications

2022 Haque, I., Kotal, M., & Meera ML. Demystifying the challenges of low-income housing delivery in urban India: The case of Delhi, ICRIER Working Paper No. 412. http://icrier.org/pdf/Working_Paper_412.pdf

2021 Haque, I., Das, DN, Patel, PP and Md. Hasnine.Towards an enhanced understandingof caste-based residential segregation in Indian Cities: Reflection from Kolkata and Bengaluru, Spatial Demography, April 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s40980-021-00085-8, Publisher: Springer.

2020 Kashif, I., Sahana, M., Rana, MJ,Haque, I., Patel, P.P., &Pramanik, M.A district-level susceptibility and vulnerability assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic's footprint in India, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology (Elsevier), Vol. 36,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2020.100390.

2020 Haque, I., Rana MJ and Patel, PP.Location Matters: Unravelling the spatial dimensions of neighbourhood level Housing Quality in Kolkata, India, Habitat International (Elsevier), Vol.99. doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102157

Experience

1. Research Consultant (June 2018 to April 2019)
Impact and Policy Research Institute, Saket, New Delhi- 110017
Project: Where will the city-maker stay? A study of housing and living conditions of informal workers in Delhi and Ranchi
Funding Agency: ActionAid, New Delhi
PI: Dr. Arjun Kumar
Responsibilities: Data Analysis, Mapping and Writing

2. Research Associate (MEL &Knowledge Management) (April 2019 to January 2020)
Swasti- The Health Catalyst, New Delhi, India
Project: Learning for impact (L4i)
Funding Agency: USAID/India health office
PI: Dr. Angela Chowdhury
Responsibilities: Providing all kind of technical and research input in generating evidence based actionable database from large scale survey data (NFHS/NSS/Population Census); developing monitoring and evaluation tools for RMNCH service uptakes among vulnerable groups in aspirational districts; doing various advanced statistical modelling, GIS mapping, data visualization, and among others.

3. Fellow (3rd February 2020 to 17th April 2023)
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Plot No. 16-17, Sector-6, Pushp Vihar Institutional Area,
Saket, New Delhi- 110017
Project- I: Sustainable Urban Development and Smart Cities (SUD-SC) (completed)
Funding agency : GIZ India
PI : Dr. Amrita Goldar
Responsibilities: Preparation of inception report and monthly progress reports, presenting quaterly outputs in all grantee meeting, developing survey methodology and executing extensive field work in studied cities (Bhubaneswar and Kochi), preparation of training module and knowledge products

Project- II: Research and disseminate information on Urban Indias’ affordable housing challenges (completed)
Funding Agency: Ford Foundation
PI: Dr. Debarpita Roy & Dr. Amrita Goldar
Responsibilities: Development of concept note, proposal writing and budgeting, methodology development, survey design and conducting primary field work, stakeholder consultations, preparation of knowledge product and Policy briefs and organizing dissemination workshop.

Area of Specialization

Critical urban/population geography
Spatial demography
Housing Studies
Geospatial data modelling and research methods.

Membership of other Professional Associations

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]
Asian Population Association [APA]

Ismail Haque is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. An alumnus from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he completed his doctoral studies from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), JNU in 2022. He joined the Department of Geography (JMI) as Assistant Professor in April 2023. Currently he is also serving as Visiting Fellow (Honorary) at the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi.