Ramazan Salman

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Ramazan Salman (* 1960 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish social scientist and medical sociologist who has lived in Germany since 1966 .

Since 1992 he has been the managing director of the Ethno-Medical Center and first chairman of the Institute for transcultural care e. V., as well as member of the clinical ethics committee of the Hannover Medical School. Since 2003 he has been leading the MiMi health project in 38 cities and municipalities for the BKK Federal Association and other sponsors (including five federal states). In addition, he leads projects on poverty reduction (through financial and asset formation) and integration through sport (Action Alliance for Healthy Lifestyles and Living Worlds, Frankfurt / Main). The “MiMi (c)” model has received several awards (e.g. Janssen-Cilag Future Prize) and rated as exemplary (e.g. by the World Health Organization, WHO, in the context of the search for practical models).

Salman was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation (2008) and the International Ashoka Society (2006) for his achievements in promoting health among the disadvantaged and as an innovator. Salman was invited to the German government's integration summit by Chancellor Angela Merkel and is subsequently a member of the German government's integration forum.

He is a board member of the German-Turkish Medical Society and a founding member of the German-Turkish Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Health e. V. He is also co-founder and spokesman for the Federal Working Group for Intercultural Dentistry and Oral Prophylaxis and recipient of the Wrigley Prophylaxis Prize. His project “Health prevention for children in socially deprived areas”, carried out together with the Stade Health Department, was awarded the Quality Prize of the Academy for Public Health and the Prix d 'ÖGD in 2004.

Honors

  • Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur 2008
  • Ashoka Germany Social Entrepreneur 2006
  • Janssen-Cilag Future Prize 2006 for the initiative "MiMi - with migrants for migrants", which is committed to improving health care and provision for families with a migration background (under the patronage of State Minister Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer Member of the Bundestag, formerly the Federal Government Commissioner for migration, refugees and integration )
  • Wrigley Prophylaxis Prize 2001 in the area of ​​"Public Health" for the work "Culture-sensitive oral prophylaxis to promote the oral health of migrants"
  • 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications (selection)

Publications:

  • R. Salman: Intercultural health mediators - building a long-term self-sustaining system. (= Forum Migration Health Integration. Volume 5). Accompanying study to the MiMi health project in Hamburg. VWB-Verlag, Berlin 2008.
  • R. Salman, B. Menkhaus: With migrants for migrants - The MiMi project of the Ethno-Medical Center as a contribution to intercultural health promotion and integration in Germany. In: Health and Integration. A manual for models of good practice. ed. Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration. Berlin, November 2006, pp. 107-115.
  • R. Salman et al.: Linguistic communication in the health sector as a political and professional challenge. In: Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration (Ed.): Healthy integration. Documentation of the conference on February 20 and 21, 2003 in Berlin. Bonn University Book Printing Company 2003.
  • T. Hegemann, R. Salman (Ed.): Transcultural Psychiatry - Concepts for Working with People from Other Cultures. Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn 2001.
  • J. Collatz, W. Hackhausen, R. Salman (Eds.): Assessment in the intercultural field. On the situation of migrants and on the quality of their socio-legal and socio-medical assessment in Germany. (= Forum Migration Health Integration. Volume 1). Publishing house science and education, Berlin 1999.
  • R. Salman, S. Tuna, A. Lessing (Ed.): Handbook interkulturelle Suchthilfe. Models, concepts and approaches of prevention, counseling and therapy. Edition psychosozial, Psychosozial Verlag, Giessen 1999.
  • T. Hegemann, R. Salman (Ed.): Transcultural Psychiatry? Concepts for working with people from other cultures. Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn 2001.
  • R. Salman, U. Wöhler (Ed.): Legal support for migrants - status, conception and foundation of transcultural support work. Institute for Transcultural Care, Hanover 2001.
  • Th. Schneller, R. Salman, C. Goepel, C. (Eds.): Handbook of oral prophylaxis and oral health in migrants - status, practical concepts and intercultural perspectives in Germany and Europe. (= Forum for oral prophylaxis and oral health. Volume 1). German Working Group for Youth Dental Care, Bonn 2001.
  • W. Machleidt, R. Salman, I. Calliess (eds.): Sonnenberg guidelines - integration of migrants in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Experiences and concepts in Germany and Europe. (= Forum Migration Health Integration ). Publishing house science and education, Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Salman, Ramazan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graduated social scientist and medical sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul