Tevfik Bayram
Dr. Tevfik Bayram was born in Balveren, Şırnak, and completed his primary and secondary education in this city. After completing his undergraduate education at the Marmara University School of Medicine in 2012, he worked as a general practitioner in Şırnak for a year. In 2014, he started his Public Health Specialization education again at the Marmara University and completed it in 2019. Between 2015-2016, he did his Master of Public Health in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His master's thesis was on health behavior inequalities between various ethnic/religious groups in Jerusalem; and his Specialization thesis was on Turkish migrant women’s access to healthcare services in Switzerland (MIWOCA project, conducted by the University of Bern). His main areas of interest are health behaviors, health promotion, and health inequalities. He has presented his studies in many national and international conferences and his articles have been published in various international journals. After completing his Public Health Specialization education, he started working as a Specialist in the Şırnak Directorate of Public Health. And currently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he works as the head of the Provincial Department of Communicable Diseases. Dr. Bayram speaks Kurdish, Turkish, English and Persian.