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Biography

Germán Zuluaga Ramírez, Colombian, is Director of the Study Group on Traditional Health Systems at the School of Medicine of the Universidad del Rosario and General Director of the Centre for Intercultural Medical Studies (Cemi). Medical surgeon from the Universidad del Rosario (1984), with a Master's degree in Medical Sciences (2011) and a PhD in Epidemiology (2017) from the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero in Mexico, he combines academic, scientific and administrative activities with general medical practice in the municipality of Cota (Cundinamarca). Professor of the master’s degree in public health at the Universidad de La Sabana. He received the United Nations Global 500 Institutional Award in 2002 and the Paul Feyerabend Award "For a more caring world" in 2009. He is an Honorary Member of the ICCA Consortium and recognised as a Research Associate by COLCIENCIAS. Author of numerous books and scientific articles. His work has focused on the approach to the traditional health systems of indigenous, Afro-American and mestizo communities, in addition to the study of ethnobotany and medical botany. He has contributed to the establishment of new ethical criteria for research with communities, based on intercultural dialogue. In recent works he proposes legal pluralism, defends the right to epistemological diversity and proposes an epidemiology applied to traditional knowledge.

Activities

Employment (2)

Centro de Estudios Médicos Interculturales: Cota, Cundinamarca, CO

2006-03-31 to present | Director General
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Universidad del Rosario: Bogotá, CO

2004-07-01 to present | Director Grupo de Estudios en Sistemas Tradicionales de Salud (Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero: Chilpancingo, Guerrero, MX

2012-02 to 2016-11 | Doctorado en Epidemiología (CIET)
Education
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Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero: Chilpancingo, Guerrero, MX

2006-11 to 2011-04 | Maestría en Ciencias Médicas: Vertiente Epidemiología Aplicada (CIET)
Education
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Universidad del Rosario: Bogotá, CO

1978-07-10 to 1984-06-19 | Médico Cirujano (Facultad de Medicina)
Education
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Professional activities (1)

ICCA Consortium: Genolier, CH

2010-01 to present | Miembro Honorario: Consorcio ICCA: Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas
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Works (18)

Competency-Based Cultural Safety Training in Medical Education at La Sabana University, Colombia: A Roadmap of Curricular Modernization

Teaching and Learning in Medicine
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Juan Pimentel; Julio Cesar García; Alvaro Enrique Romero-Tapia; Germán Zuluaga; Camilo Correal; Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson
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Potential of Bitter Medicinal Plants: A Review of Flavor Physiology

Pharmaceuticals
2024-06-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Germán Zuluaga
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Vivir sin pareja, ¿un factor de riesgo en la autopercepción en salud? Estudio transversal piloto con un pequeño grupo de adultos en un municipio de Colombia

Salud Uninorte
2024-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0120-5552
Part of ISSN: 2011-7531
Contributors: Maria Del Mar Moreno Gómez; Erwin Hernando Hernández Rincón; Camilo Alejandro Correal Muñoz; Germán Zuluaga Ramírez
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German Zuluaga

Experimental studies testing interventions to promote cultural safety, interculturality or antiracism in healthcare: protocol for a systematic review

BMJ Open
2024-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
Contributors: Ivan Sarmiento; Andrés Rojas-Cárdenas; Germán Zuluaga; Loubna Belaid; Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson
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Safe birth in cultural safety in southern Mexico: a pragmatic non-inferiority cluster-randomised controlled trial

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Iván Sarmiento; Sergio Paredes-Solís; Abraham de Jesús García; Nadia Maciel Paulino; Felipe René Serrano de los Santos; José Legorreta-Soberanis; Germán Zuluaga; Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson
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Overview of traditional medicine in the Muisca Reserve of Cota, Colombia: A cross-sectional study

Medwave
2022-03-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0717-6384
Contributors: Germán Zuluaga; Camilo Correal; Néstor Rodríguez; Sandra Cano; Iván Sarmiento
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Maternal health and Indigenous traditional midwives in southern Mexico: contextualisation of a scoping review

BMJ Open
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Iván Sarmiento; Sergio Paredes-Solís; Anna Dion; Hilah Silver; Emily Vargas; Paloma Cruz; Juan Pimentel; Germán Zuluaga; Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson
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Effect and safety of an outpatient traditional medicine treatment for asthma in 26 patients from Cota, Colombia: a case series

Boletin Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas
2021-11-30 | Journal article
Contributors: German Zuluaga; Juan Pimentel; Ivan Sarmiento; Neil Andersson
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Asociación entre la exposición al frío y el asma: revisión sistemática y meta-análisis, 1965-2015

Salud Uninorte
2021-08-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0120-5552
Part of ISSN: 2011-7531
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German Zuluaga

Cultivation and use of medicinal plants and association with reporting of childhood asthma: A case-control study in the Bogotá savanna

Medwave
2021-05-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Germán Zuluaga; Iván Sarmiento; Juan Pimentel; Camilo Correal; Neil Andersson
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The Experience of Colombian Medical Students in a Pilot Cultural Safety Training Program: A Qualitative Study Using the Most Significant Change Technique

Teaching and Learning in Medicine
2021-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1040-1334
Part of ISSN: 1532-8015
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German Zuluaga

Factores clínicos y demográficos asociados con la mortalidad por dengue en Colombia: estudio de casos y controles

Salud Pública de México
2020-12-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1606-7916
Part of ISSN: 0036-3634
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German Zuluaga

Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue: lessons from participatory research in Mexico

BMJ Global Health
2020-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2059-7908
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German Zuluaga

What motivates medical students to learn about traditional medicine? A qualitative study of cultural safety in Colombia

International Journal of Medical Education
2020-06-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-6372
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Curriculum Co-design for Cultural Safety Training of Medical Students in Colombia: Protocol for a Qualitative Study

2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Juan Pimentel; Germán Zuluaga; Andrés Isaza; Adriana Molina; Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson
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Indigenous Factors Relevant for Safe Birth in Cultural Safety Among Nancue ñomndaa Communities in Guerrero, Mexico. Protocol of a Study Based on Conversations

International Journal of Indigenous Health
2019-08-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2291-9376
Part of ISSN: 2291-9368
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German Zuluaga

Traditional medicine used in childbirth and for childhood diarrhoea in Nigeria's Cross River State: interviews with traditional practitioners and a statewide cross-sectional study

BMJ Open
2016-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
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German Zuluaga

Initiation rites at menarche and self-reported dysmenorrhoea among indigenous women of the Colombian Amazon: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open
2013 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
Part of ISSN: 2044-6055
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Peer review (3 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for PloS one. (3)