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'''Simon Fenton Chapman''', [[wikipedia:Order of Australia|AO]] (born 14 December 1951)<!-- Ext link LCCN cites British Library --> is an Australian academic and tobacco control activist. | |||
== Life and career == | |||
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>{{cite 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. | |||
He was lead singer with a Sydney-based rock covers band, the Original Faux Pas,<ref>{{|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Original-Faux-Pas/116370731720721 |title=The Original Faux Pas |publisher=Facebook.com |date= |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> from 2007–2012 and then with The Bleeding Hearts.<ref>{{|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bleeding-Hearts/557703304248379 |title=The Bleeding Hearts |publisher=Facebook.com |date= |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> | |||
In November 2019, he directed the inaugural St.Anmoré (Stanmore) Festival of Music to honour the late conductor and musical educator Richard Gill AO | |||
He tweets @simonchapman6.<ref>{{|url=https://twitter.com/SimonChapman6 |title=Simon Chapman AO (@SimonChapman6) |publisher=Twitter.com |date=2014-02-17 |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> | |||
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> | |||
In December 2017, Public Health England accused him of presenting factual errors during a Federal Government Enquiry<ref>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/health-trio-accused-of-presenting-factual-errors-to-ecig-inquiry/news-story/c360953ae14744b6beafc965eb1aa292</ref> | |||
His full reply to these claims was published in Hansard (submission 313.1<ref>https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Health_Aged_Care_and_Sport/ElectronicCigarettes/Submissions</ref> | |||
==Selected books== | |||
* Chapman, S. (2017) ''Wind turbine syndrome: a communicated disease''. (Sydney, Sydney University Press)<ref>{{|url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/17600 |format=PDF |title=Wind turbine syndrome: a communicated disease |publisher=Sydney University Press |accessdate=2018-02-25}}</ref> | |||
* Chapman, S. (2016) ''Smoke signals: selected writing''. (Sydney, Darlington Press)<ref>{{|url=http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781921364594|format=PDF |title=Smoke signals:selected writing|publisher=Ses.library.usyd.edu.au |accessdate=2017-03-17}}</ref> | |||
* Chapman, S, Freeman B. (2014) ''Removing the emperor's clothes: tobacco plain packaging in Australia''. (Sydney, Sydney University Press)<ref>{{|url=http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au//bitstream/2123/12257/7/9781743324295_Chapman_RemovingtheEmperorsClothes_FT.pdf |format=PDF |title=Removing the emperor's clothes |publisher=Ses.library.usyd.edu.au |accessdate=2015-04-16}}</ref> | |||
* Chapman, S, Barratt A, Stockler M.(2010) ''Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before getting tested for prostate cancer''. (Sydney, Sydney University Press)<ref>{{|url=http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920899684 |title=SUP eStore :: Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before getting tested for prostate cancer |publisher=Purl.library.usyd.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> | |||
* 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). Reprinted 2013 by Sydney University Press<ref>{{|author= |url=http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/8938 |title=The Sydney eScholarship Repository: Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control |publisher=Ses.library.usyd.edu.au |date=2013-02-14 |accessdate=2015-04-15}}</ref> | |||
* 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== | |||
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==External links== | |||
* [http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/simon.chapman.php Professor Simon Chapman] at the University of Sydney with [http://api.profiles.sydney.edu.au/AcademicProfiles/profile/resource?urlid=simon.chapman&type=cv Curriculum vitae, January 2015] | |||
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