Julia Hyman was born and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, and lived within a 50-mile radius for much of her life. She went to Harvard College and majored in Human Evolutionary Biology with a focus on primatology. She did her undergraduate thesis studying monkeys in the wild in Uganda. She then worked in a lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before matriculating at Harvard Medical School. During her time at HMS, she worked on a QI project on severe mental illness with Partners In Health in Neno, Malawi (Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo), which cemented her interest in global health and in the HEAL fellowship after overlapping with HEAL fellows at APZU. She then went onto Internal Medicine residency at University of Massachusetts/UMass Chan Medical School, where so took great pride in medical education, in palliative care, and in her care of patients with addiction. In her free time, she loves spending time with her family, playing soccer, eating good food, and doing very little on her days off.