Simon Chapman

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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.^[1] Chapman is a sociologist whose PhD examined the semiotics of cigarette advertising.^[2] He is author of 13 books and major government reports, 202 papers and 123 letters and commentaries in peer reviewed journals.

Chapman is a regular writer on public health matters in leading Australian newspapers, having written 125 opinion page and journalistic articles since 1981.^[3] 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 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 President’s Award;^[4] and in 2003 he was voted by his international peers to be awarded the American Cancer Society’s Luther Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control.^[5] 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, Tobacco Control and since 1999 has been its editor.^[6]

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 Community Human Rights award for its advocacy for gun law reform after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

[edit] Selected Books

Chapman, S. (forthcoming Sep 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).

[edit] References

^ University of Sydney. Academic Staff Profile - Professor Simon Chapman. http://www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/profiles/simonchapman.php.
^ Chapman S. Simon Chapman – Biography. Tobacco Control Supersite. http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/docs/chapman.htm.
^ Simon Chapman Curriculum Vitae. http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/pdfs/CV.pdf
^ The Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand. President’s Award. http://www.thoracic.org.au/award19.pdf.
^ American Cancer Society. Past Winners - Luther L. Terry Awards. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_9_1_Past_Winners.asp?sitearea=AA
^ Tobacco Control. http://tc.bmj.com/info/about.dtl

Persondata
NAME	Chapman, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian academic and antismoking tobacco control activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH