Arafat Ul Alam is affiliated with the Department of Oncology at the University of Calgary. He earned a PhD in Medicine from the Division of Hematology at the University of Alberta in 2023.
His research includes studies on the risk of subsequent primary neoplasms among survivors of cancer in adolescence and young adulthood, as detailed in a 2026 publication in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Additional research focuses on hemophilia, bleeding disorders, venous thromboembolism in patients with hematologic malignancies, and related population-based analyses using data from Alberta, Canada. Publications include works from 2019 onward on topics such as risk factors for respiratory failure in Guillain-Barré syndrome, all-cause mortality in persons with haemophilia, and norms for health-related quality of life measures.