Vidot is a registered midwife from the Luton and Dunstable School of Midwifery, and a registered nurse from the Bath School of Nursing. She graduated with a master's degree in health services management from the University of Manchester.[3]
In 1977, she started her career as a nurse instructor at the School of Nursing in Seychelles.[3] In 2003,[3] she was appointed Health Advisor for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.[4] Upon her return to Seychelles[2] in 2012, she was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister for Health,[3] and served until 2016.[2]
Vidot is the chairperson of the National Aids Council in Seychelles,[5] and was a proponent of switching HIV treatment tasks from doctors to nurses and midwives to better combat the disease in Africa.[6] In order to enable the switching, she initiated the African Health Profession Regulatory Collaborative (ARC) together with Patricia Riley of the CDC, as a framework to strengthen nursing and midwifery education. In 2011, ARC was established and has been implemented in 17 nations as of 2016.[7]
On 29 October 2020, Vidot was elected Minister of Health, succeeding Jean-Paul Adam.[4] and was sworn in on 3 November 2020[8].
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