Simon Chapman

Simon Chapman (Born in 1951 in Bowral, New South Wales) is an Australian academic and antismoking tobacco control activist.

He is Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. [University of Sydney. Academic Staff Profile - Professor Simon Chapman. http://www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/profiles/simonchapman.php.] Chapman is a sociologist whose PhD examined the semiotics of cigarette advertising. [Chapman S. Simon Chapman – Biography. Tobacco Control Supersite. http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/docs/chapman.htm.] He is author of 13 books and major government reports, 233 papers and 131 letters and commentaries in peer reviewed journals.

Chapman is a regular writer on public health matters in leading Australian newspapers, having written over 150 opinion page and journalistic articles since 1981. [Simon Chapman Curriculum Vitae. http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/pdfs/CV.pdf] His main research interests are in tobacco control, media discourses on health and illness, and risk communication. He teaches annual courses in Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control in the University of Sydney's [http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/future/coursework/publichealth/index.php MPH program] .

In 1997 Chapman won the World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day Medal; in 1999, the National Heart Foundation of Australia’s gold medal; in 2006 the Thoracic Society of Australia’s [http://www.thoracic.org.au/awards2007.html President’s Award] ; [The Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand. President’s Award. http://www.thoracic.org.au/award19.pdf.] and in 2003 he was voted by his international peers to be awarded the American Cancer Society’s Luther Terry [http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_9_1_Past_Winners.asp?sitearea=AA Award] for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control. [American Cancer Society. Past Winners - Luther L. Terry Awards. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_9_1_Past_Winners.asp?sitearea=AA] In 2005, his research on the tobacco industry was selected by the National Health and Medical Research Council as being one of its “top 10” projects. He was foundational deputy editor of the British Medical Journal's specialist journal, [http://tc.bmj.com Tobacco Control] and since 1999 has been its editor. [Tobacco Control. http://tc.bmj.com/info/about.dtl]

In 2008 he was awarded the $50,000 NSW Premier's award for Cancer Researcher of the Year and voted to become a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

Chapman is a life member of the Australian Consumers' Association and was its chairman 1999-2002. He served on the board of The Cancer Council New South Wales for 9 years until 2006. He was a key member of the Coalition for Gun Control which won the 1996 Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s [http://www.hreoc.gov.au/hr_awards/1996.html Community Human Rights award] for its advocacy for gun law reform after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

elected Books

* Chapman, S. (2007) "Public health advocacy and tobacco control: making smoking history" (Oxford, Blackwell)
* Chapman, S. (1998) "Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control" (Sydney, Pluto Press).
* Chapman, S. (1995) "The last right?:Australians take sides on the right to die" (Sydney: Mandarin)
* Chapman, S. & Lupton, D. (1994) "The fight for public health: principles and practice of media advocacy" (London, BMJ).
* Chapman, S. (1990) "Tobacco in the third world: a resource atlas" (International Organisation of Consumers' Unions).
* Chapman, S. (1986) "Great expectorations: advertising and the tobacco industry" (London: Comedia).
* Chapman, S. (1983) "The lung goodbye: tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry in the 1980s" (International Organisation of Consumers' Unions).

References

External links

* [http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/pdfs/CV.pdf Simon Chapman's Full Biography]
* [http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/index.htm Simon Chapman's Tobacco Control Website]
* [http://tc.bmj.com Tobacco Control] journal

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