Michael R. Kidd MD, MBBS

Michael Kidd is an Australian academic, primary care researcher, educator, and clinician. He is the current Principal Medical Advisor and Deputy Chief Medical Officer with the Australian Government Department of Health, and Professor of Primary Care Reform at the Australian National University. He is also Professorial Fellow with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Honorary Professor with the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne, and Honorary Professor of Global Primary Care with the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University in South Australia. A graduate from the University of Melbourne Medical School, he completed postgraduate training in general practice with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, postgraduate training in public health at Flinders University, and a research doctorate at Monash University.

He was Professor and Chair of the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney from 1996 to 2008. He was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University from 2009 to 2016, with responsibility for the university’s School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery, and School of Health Sciences, and the university’s health and medical research and education activities across South Australia and the Northern Territory. From May 2017 to April 2020, he was Chair of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care, and Senior Innovation Fellow with the Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.