Professor Simon Chapman
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Professor Public Health
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Biographical details
Simon Chapman PhD FASSA, is Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney and a staff elected Fellow of Senate. He has published 439 articles in peer reviewed journals and 17 books and major reports. His h index is 40. His Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History was published by Blackwell (Oxford) in 2007. 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.
Research interests
His current research involves examining policy how health and medical issues are covered in the news media; the implications for tobacco control of web 2.0 technology; and characteristics of public health research (and its dissemination) which impact on public health policy.
Current national competitive grants*
2012
Characteristics of intervention research that progresses to 'real-world' implementation
Chapman S, Redman S, Rychetnik L, King L, Milat A
NHMRC Project Grants ($537,020 over 3 years)
The natural history of unassisted smoking cessation in Australia
Dunlop S, Chapman S, Carter S, Freeman B
NHMRC Project Grants ($318,510 over 3 years)
2010
Calling the tune? Investigating corporate influences on media reporting on health
Chapman S, Kerridge I, Jordens C, Bacon W, Bonfiglioni C, Sweet M, Lipworth W
NHMRC Project Grant ($445,500 over 3 years)
2009
The Australian Health News Research Collaboration
Chapman S, Blood W, Pirkis J
NHMRC Capacity Building Grant ($1,897,375 over 4 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
International links
Thailand. (South East Asian Tobacco Control Coalition (SEATCA)) I am a regular consultant to SEATCA in tobacco control training..
China. (British Medical Journal) Commissioning Editor for Low and Middle Income Countries, Tobacco Control..