Professor Michael Kidd AO is Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, based in the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. A general practitioner by training, he is a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and a past president of the World Organization of Family Doctors. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and has held past research appointments at Monash University, the University of Sydney, Flinders University, the Australian National University, and the University of Toronto in Canada. He holds current academic appointments as the Foundation Director of the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales, and Professor of Global Primary Care with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.
