Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD: Researching Antibiotic Resistance

What My Research Is About

Dr. Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD, leads critical investigations into the social and biological dimensions of antibiotic resistance. By utilizing ethnographic methodologies, she uncovers how hospital settings and clinical environments shape the way antibiotics are prescribed and managed, impacting global public health trajectories.

According to Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD, the movement of microbes across institutional boundaries is not merely a biological event but a socio-technical one. Her work bridges the fields of anthropology, medicine, and environmental health to illustrate how organizational structures and daily clinical labor influence microbial evolution and resistance patterns.

As a faculty member at Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Rynkiewich integrates her fieldwork findings into a broader framework of medical anthropology. Her research emphasizes the importance of understanding institutional culture and microbial agency to develop more effective, context-aware public health strategies and resource provision.