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Chapman was born in [[wikipedia:Bowral]], [[wikipedia:New South Wales]] to Margaret and Alec Chapman who had emigrated from England in 1948. He is an Emeritus Professor in [[wikipedia:Public health|Public Health]] at the [[wikipedia:University of Sydney]].<ref>{{|url=http://www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/profiles/simonchapman.php |title=Professor Simon Chapman - The University of Sydney |publisher=Medfac.usyd.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> In his PhD in [[wikipedia:social medicine]] he examined the [[wikipedia:semiotics]] of [[wikipedia:cigarette advertising]].<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/public-health/AHNRC/team.html Australian Health News Research Collaboration (AHNRC)]</ref> He has authored 21 books and major reports, 340 papers and editorials, and 194 letters and commentaries in peer reviewed journals.

Chapman is a regular writer on [[wikipedia:public health]] matters in leading Australian newspapers and blogs, having written some 407 opinion page and journalistic articles since 1981.<ref>{{ |url=http://api.profiles.sydney.edu.au/AcademicProfiles/profile/resource?urlid=simon.chapman&type=cv |format=PDF |title=Curriculum vitae: Simon Chapman |publisher=[[wikipedia:University of Sydney]] |accessdate=25 October 2015}}</ref> His main research interests are in tobacco control, media discourses on health and illness, and risk communication. He taught annual courses in Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control in the [[wikipedia:University of Sydney]]'s MPH program. He wrote a regular column, Smoke Signals, on public health matters for The Conversation from January 2015-August 2017 which by December 2019 had been read 3.338 million times. He blogs at simonchapman6.com

In 1997 Chapman won the [[wikipedia:World Health Organization]]'s [[wikipedia:World No Tobacco Day]] Medal; in 1999, the [[wikipedia:National Heart Foundation of Australia]]'s gold medal; in 2006 the Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand President's Award.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150304080702/http://www.thoracic.org.au/imagesDB/wysiwyg/Pres_Award_2015.pdf TSANZ President's Award]</ref> In 2003 he was voted by his international peers to be awarded the [[wikipedia:American Cancer Society]]'s Luther L. Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control.<ref>[http://www.cancer.org/aboutus/honoringpeoplewhoaremakingadifference/lutherterryawards/lutherterryrecipients/2003-luther-l-terry-award-winners American Cancer Society's 2003 Luther L. Terry Award Winners]</ref> In 2005, his research on the tobacco industry was selected by the [[wikipedia:National Health and Medical Research Council]] as being one of its "top 10" projects. He was foundational deputy editor of the ''[[wikipedia:British Medical Journal]]'''s specialist journal, ''[[wikipedia:Tobacco Control (journal)|Tobacco Control]]'', and its editor from 1999 to 2008. He was Tobacco Control's commissioning editor for Low and Middle Income Countries from 2008–2010 and is now editor emeritus.

Chapman studied health complaints regarding [[wikipedia:wind farm]]s in Australia in 2012 and concluded the complaints were likely to be the result of [[wikipedia:nocebo]] effects.<ref>{{ journal|last1=Chapman|first1=Simon|last2=St. George|first2=Alexis|last3=Waller|first3=Karen|last4=Cakic|first4=Vince|title=The Pattern of Complaints about Australian Wind Farms Does Not Match the Establishment and Distribution of Turbines: Support for the Psychogenic, 'Communicated Disease' Hypothesis|journal=[[wikipedia:PLoS ONE]] |volume=8|issue=10|year=2013|issn=1932-6203  |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0076584|pages=e76584|pmid=24146893|pmc=3797792}}</ref><ref>{{|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/wind-turbine-sickness-all-in-the-mind-study-20130315-2g4zd.html |title=Wind turbine sickness 'all in the mind': study |author=Lenore Taylor |date=15 March 2013 |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref>

In 2008 he was awarded the $50,000 NSW Premier's award for Cancer Researcher of the Year, voted to become a Fellow of the [[wikipedia:Academy of Social Sciences in Australia]], won the Public Health Association of Australia's Sidney Sax medal,<ref>{{ |url=http://www.phaa.net.au/sidneySaxMedal.php |title=Sidney Sax Public Health Medal |publisher=Phaa.net.au |accessdate=2015-04-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121231074215/http://www.phaa.net.au/sidneySaxMedal.php |archivedate=31 December 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and was included in the ''[[wikipedia:Sydney Morning Herald]]'''s ''Sydney Magazine'' list of 100 of Sydney's most influential people. He appeared in that magazine's list again in 2012. In 2013 he was given a Distinguished Professorial Award by the faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the [[wikipedia:Royal College of Physicians]] (UK).

Simon Chapman is a life member of the [[wikipedia:Australian Consumers' Association]] and was its chairman 1999–2002. He served on the board of [[wikipedia:The Cancer Council New South Wales]] for nine years until 2006. He was a key member of the Coalition for Gun Control which won the 1996 Australian [[wikipedia:Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]]'s Community Human Rights award for its advocacy for gun law reform after the [[wikipedia:Port Arthur massacre (Australia)|Port Arthur massacre]] in 1996. The [[wikipedia:Australian Skeptics]] Inc conferred on him the award of Australian Skeptic of the Year in 2013.<ref>{{|url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/announcements/featured-announcement/chiropractors-win-joint-bent-spoon/ |title=Chiropractors win joint Bent Spoon |publisher=[[Australian Skeptics|Australian Skeptics Inc.]] |date=25 November 2013 |accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref>

He was a staff elected Fellow of Senate,<ref>{{|url=http://www.usyd.edu.au/senate/Fellows.shtml |title=Current Fellows of Senate - Senate - The University of Sydney |publisher=Usyd.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> at the University of Sydney from 2007–2011. He was a board member of [[wikipedia:Action on Smoking and Health]] (ASH) from 1996–2013.

In November 2019, he directed the inaugural St.Anmoré (Stanmore) Festival of Music to honour the late conductor and musical educator Richard Gill AO

Chapman was made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the [[wikipedia:Order of Australia]] on 10 June 2013.<ref>{{ | url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/queens-birthday-honours-list-2013-20130609-2nyam.html |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2013 | author= | date=10 June 2013 | work= | publisher=Sydney Morning Herald | accessdate=10 June 2013 }}</ref>

He retired in January 2016 and was awarded Emeritus Professor status by the [[wikipedia:University of Sydney]] commencing 2016.<ref>{{|url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/2015/04/30/award-winner-prof-simon-chapman-retires/ |title=Award-winner Prof Simon Chapman retires |publisher=[[Australian Skeptics|Australian Skeptics Inc.]] |date=30 April 2015 |accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref>