Ravich-Birger (Rawitsch-Birger) Elena Davidovna (1894, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province – 1986, Moscow) — infectious disease specialist, microbiologist.

Elena Ravich-Birger was born into a physician’s family. Doctor of Medical Sciences (1948), Professor (1954). Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the 2nd Moscow State University (1919). In 1920–21 she was a resident physician at the 1st Hospital in Sarapul. In 1921–38 worked as a physician in Moscow hospitals. From 1938 — Head of the Department of Intestinal Infections at the Municipal Bacteriological Institute. From 1956 worked at the State Control Institute, in the Department of Live Cultures, while simultaneously heading the Central Museum of Live Cultures.

Her principal scientific research was in the fields of microbiology and immunology. She was the creator of the national collection of pathogenic and opportunistic microbial and viral cultures and made proposals for their classification. Initiator and organiser of the publication of the Catalogue of Pathogenic Microbes (1957).

Works: Microbiological and Serological Methods of Investigation in Clinical Practice: A Guide to Clinical Laboratory Research (Микробиологические и серологические ме­тоды исследования в клинике: Руководство по кли­ническим лабораторным исследованиям), 5th ed., Moscow, 1960; Bacteriological and Serological Methods of Investigation in Infectious Diseases (Бактериологические и серологические методы исследования при инфекционных заболеваниях ), Moscow, 1965 (co-authored with R. V. Epstein-Litvak).

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