Barbara Rylko-Bauer (born 1950) is a medical anthropologist and author who lives in the United States.
She is an adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University's Department of Anthropology.
She was born in 1950 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and emigrated with her parents to the United States that same year.
[8] She is the author of a biography-memoir, A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade,[9] which focuses on her mother's experiences as a Polish prisoner-doctor in Nazi slave labor camps and her efforts to rebuild her life, first as a refugee doctor in Germany, and later as an immigrant to the United States.
In 2003, Barbara Rylko-Bauer won the Rudolph Virchow Award for her work with Paul Farmer.