Kidd was President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 2002-06. He was Head of the Department of General Practice at The University of Sydney between 1998 and 2008. In 2009, he was appointed as an Honorary Professor with the School of Medicine at The University of Sydney. From 2009-16, he served as the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University with responsibility for the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and Midwifery, and the School of Health Sciences. In 2017, he was appointed as Professor of Global Primary Care with the Southgate Institute for Health, Equity and Society at Flinders University, and as Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. In 2018, he was appointed as Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care. In 2020, he was appointed as Principal Medical Advisor and Deputy Chief Medical Officer with the Department of Health, Australia. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has been a member of the board of directors of beyondblue since 2011. He served ten years as a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the based at Oxford University. From 2008-10, he was the Chair of the advocacy organisation Doctors for the Environment Australia. He served as World President of WONCA from June 2013 to November 2016. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the world's first online, PubMed listed, international medical journal devoted solely to case reports from all medical disciplines. He is the author/editor of several books including Save your life and the lives of those you love – your GP’s six step guide to good health, published by Allen and Unwin in 2007. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 131 libraries. His book on the health and well being of doctors and medical students entitled First Do No Harm – how to be a resilient doctor in the 21st century was published by McGraw Hill in 2009. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 123 libraries.
Government appointments
Kidd was Chair of the Australian Government's Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections, from 2009-16, and was also chair of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Advisory Council. He was also a member of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council, the Australian Government's Medical Training Review Panel, the Privacy Advisory Committee of Australia's Federal Privacy Commissioner, and a member of the Council of the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council.
Hovenga E, Kidd MR, Cesnik B. Health Informatics: an Overview, Churchill-Livingstone, London..
Kidd MR, McCoy R. Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care , Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Rowe L, Kidd MR. Save your life – and the lives of those you love, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Rowe L, Kidd MR. First do no harm – how to be a resilient doctor in the 21st century, McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
Kidd MR. The Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems: a guidebook from the World Organization of Family Doctors , CRC Press-Taylor and Francis, Abingdon.
Kidd MR, Heath I, Howe A. Family Medicine: The Classic Papers, CRC Press-Taylor and Francis, Abingdon.
Salah H, Kidd MR. Family Practice in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, CRC Press-Taylor and Francis, Abingdon.
Rowe L, Kidd MR. Every doctor, CRC Press-Taylor and Francis, Abingdon.
