Professor Michael Kidd

Professor Michael Kidd AO FAHMS is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Professor Kidd holds a joint appointment as Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in Oxford and as inaugural Director of the Centre for Future Health Systems based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

His research interests include a focus on global health, primary care, digital health, mental health, health policy, the education of health professionals, safety and quality in primary care, the primary care management of HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections, and the role of case reports in contemporary health care. He is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 20 books.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Australia and was the public face of the nation’s primary care response, working with the Australian government, the Minister for Health, and stakeholders on key initiatives including the rapid implementation of whole of population telehealth measures. He also held appointment as the Foundation Professor of Primary Care Reform at the Australian National University in Canberra and, throughout the pandemic, led a team of action researchers documenting the development and implementation of the nation’s primary care response to COVID-19 and carrying out rapid research reviews to inform national policy developments.

Prior to returning to Australia at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was based in Canada where he was the Foundation Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care, Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Senior Innovation Fellow with the Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. Prior to this, he was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University from 2009 to 2016, and Professor and Chair of the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney from 1996 to 2008.