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Professor Michael Kidd AO FAHMS is an Australian academic, primary care researcher, educator and clinician.����He has a joint appointment as the inaugural��Director of the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales, and as Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.

He is a member of the board of The George Institute for Global Health, Telstra Health, and Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, and chair of the Therapeutic Guidelines Foundation. He is a member of the Australian Government Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). From 2020 to 2023, he served as Principal Medical Advisor and Deputy Chief Medical Officer with the Australian Government Department of Health, and as the foundation Professor of Primary Care Reform at the Australian National University. He is a 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, Honorary Professor of Global Primary Care with the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.��

He was Professor and Chair of the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney from 1996 to 2008, and 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.��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 from 2017 to February 2020.��He has worked for over 35 years as a family doctor/general practitioner with special interests in the care of people with HIV, mental health and Indigenous health. He served two terms as the elected President of the RACGP from 2002 to 2006. He served as President of the World Organization of Family Doctors from 2013 to 2016. He is the Patron of the Australian General Practice Students Network and General Practice Registrars Australia.

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