Prof. Kidd to lead UNSW's new Centre for Future Health Systems
With information of
www.unsw.edu.au
Read the complete article here.
Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, Dean of UNSW Medicine & Health and Acting Provost – Faculties, has announced Professor Michael Kidd AO as the inaugural director of the new Centre for Future Health Systems, which is being established to promote sustainable, equitable, and person-centred health care for all people in Australia.
As part of the role, and through a partnership with The University of Oxford, he will also be appointed as Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems at that University.
Prof. Kidd joins UNSW from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, where he has served since February 2020 as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Principal Medical Advisor, with involvement in the development and implementation of the nation’s primary care response to COVID-19, the rapid implementation of telehealth to the whole population, and many other initiatives. Before returning to Australia at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was based in Canada where he was the 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 Canada’s Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care.
In WONCA, Prof Kidd served as President from 2013-2016. Before, he was elected as Member-at-Large of the WONCA world executive, in 2004, and in 2007, when he also served as WONCA Honorary Treasurer, from 2007-2010; as WONCA liaison person to the World Health Organization, from 2005-2010; and as chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education, from 2005-2010.
A long serving consultant with the World Health Organization, and also past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Prof. Kidd has earned global recognition as an authority in primary health care. His extensive professional experience spans over 35 years, encompassing the practice of general medicine in diverse settings, including urban, rural, and remote locations in Australia and overseas.
With information of
www.unsw.edu.au
Read the complete article here.