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Simon Chapman
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
Simon Chapman AO PhD FASSA HonFFPH(UK) is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. He has published over 500 articles in peer reviewed journals and 19 books and major reports. His H index is 53 and he has over 10,500 citations.
In 1997 he won the World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day Medal 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. In 2008 he won the NSW Premier’s Cancer Researcher of the Year medal; the Public Health Association of Australia’s Sidney Sax medal; and was a NSW finalist in Australian of the Year. He was deputy editor (1992-1997) then editor (1998-2008) of the British Medical Journal's, Tobacco Control and is now its Editor Emeritus. He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2013 and was named Australian Skeptic of the Year
His recent research involves examining policy how health and medical issues are covered in the news media; how people stop smoking unaided; the psychogenic aspects of wind farms and health; and characteristics of public health research (and its dissemination) which impact on public health policy.
What can obesity control learn from tobacco control's success?
Nov 25, 2016 10:26 am UTC| Health
Tobacco control is revered in contemporary public health as the poster child for chronic disease control. In nations like Australia, which have taken tobacco control seriously, we have seen virtually continual falls in...
Big Tobacco sees its future in cigarettes, not vaping
Oct 20, 2016 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco. So have the...
The failed history of tobacco harm reduction
Aug 30, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Health
Dark clouds hung over smoking as a likely risky activity long before the watershed case control studies on smoking and lung cancer were published in 1950 by Doll and Hill (on British smokers) and Wynder and Graham (on...
Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
Aug 03, 2016 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. The doctor who beat big tobacco https://t.co/fIcP2Jmuh6 Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) August 1,...
Has New Zealand lost its way in tobacco control?
Jul 10, 2016 20:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money allocated for...
Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
Jun 14, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A core platform of the massive promotion of e-cigarettes has been the argument that because these products involve no combustion but only vapourisation, they must be substantially less dangerous than smoked tobacco. Few ...
World’s largest wind farm study finds sleep disturbances aren't related to turbine noise
May 30, 2016 07:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
During the Abbott government, the often recalcitrant Senate cross bench was thrown a big, juicy bone plainly intended to sweeten their disposition toward government bills which needed their support to pass. The anti- wind...
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