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No, what you need to do is copy header.php and footer.php into your child theme and adjust them. Then, if you need different headers for each section do it with if statements (also in header.php and footer.php). You can find all the conditional tags in the BP codex.

You could also code a little switcher that works with includes. That way you’d have the various headers in different files. It’d be easier to maintain.