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Simon Chapman PhD FASSA, is Professor in Public Health at the University
of Sydney. He is a sociologist, author of 14 books and major government
reports and 366 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Simon's 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 Master of Public Health program.
Books authored by Simon include: Public Health Advocacy annd Tobacco
Control: Making Smoking History (Oxford:Blackwell, 2007); Over our
dead bodies: Gun law reform after Port Arthur (Sydney : Pluto, 1998);
The Last Right? Australians take sides on the right to die (Sydney
: Mandarin, 1995); The Fight for Public Health: Principles and Practice
of Media Advocacy (BMJ Books, 1994 with Deborah Lupton); Tobacco
in the Third World: a resource Atlas (Penang:International Organization
of Consumers Unions, 1990); Great Expectorations: Advertising and
the tobacco industry (London : Comedia, 1986); and The Lung Goodbye:
tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry in the 1980s (International
Organization of Consumers Unions, 1983).
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From 1984-2002, Simon was a member of the World Health Organization's
Expert Advisory Panel on Tobacco and Health. In 1997 he won the
World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day Medal, and in 2003,
his international peers voted him to receive the Luther
Terry medal for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco
control (shared with Mary Assunta). Simon was a member of the Governing
Council of the Australian Consumers' Association 1982-2002. He was
deputy editor of the British Medical Journal's specialist journal,
Tobacco Control from 1992-1997 and editor from 1998-2008. Currently
he is commissioning editor for Low and Middle Income Countries.
He is a staff elected fellow of the Senate at the University of
Sydney. In 2008 he won the NSW
Premier's Award for Outstanding
Cancer Research. Click here
to view a video of the award. In 2008 He was also awarded the Public
Health Association of Australia and New Zealand's Sidney
Sax Medal (read citation here)
and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
He was a finalist in the 2009 Australian of the Year award.
Since 1991, he has run dozens of training workshops in Australia,
the United States and Great Britain in media advocacy for public
health. He was a key member of the Coalition for Gun Control (1994-1996),
which won the 1996 Australian community Human Rights award.
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