Dr Michael Wright

Dr Michael Wright is the current president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

He is a general practitioner (GP), health economist and health services researcher based in Sydney, Australia. Michael combines clinical practice with strategic appointments and academic research analysing the effects of health policy on the quality and performance of primary care. Michael is the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and Associate Professor at the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales.

Michael’s previous appointments include Chief Medical Officer of Avant Mutual, chair of RACGP’s Reference Expert Committee on Funding and Health System Reform, and Board Chair of Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network.

Michael completed GP registrar training in Queensland and previously worked in London as a GP, where he completed his Masters in Public Health and was also a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Michael completed his PhD in health economics at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2019. His PhD investigated the impact of continuity of general practice care on health outcomes, and his research interests including growing the evidence base about the value of high quality primary care, and health policy research into quality, efficiency and sustainability of health services.