Until March 2013, Lydia Guterman was a program officer for the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations. In this role, she managed the Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, a collaborative and global effort to combat human rights abuses that amount to torture in health care settings.
Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, Guterman was an independent consultant, working on harm reduction and HIV research funding issues with the Treatment Action Group and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in public health from the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.