Simon Chapman
Simon Fenton Chapman (* 1951 in Bowral , New South Wales ) is an Australian medical doctor and professor of public health at the University of Sydney . He is best known for his work on the dangers of tobacco consumption and his work against tobacco smoking .
academic career
Chapman studied sociology , psychology , philosophy and English at the University of New South Wales and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. In 1977 he obtained a master’s degree with a later excellent thesis on "Advertising and psychotropic drugs - the place of myth in ideological reproduction". In 1984 he received his doctorate in medicine on "Cigarette advertising as myth: a re-evaluation of the relationship of advertising to smoking" at the University of Sydney. Since January 2000 he has been Professor of Public Health there.
Chapman's work focuses on research into cancer , obesity , diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases , healthy aging and modern health panics. His research on tobacco consumption and its health risks were of particular importance.
As of June 2018, Chapman has written over 520 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as 21 books or detailed reports. His h-index at this point was 59.
He is also the emeritus editor of the scientific journal Tobacco Control .
Awards (selection)
Chapman has received numerous awards for his work and has also received numerous awards from non-smoking organizations . The full list is available here.
- Officer of the Order of Australia 2013
- Finalist in the 2009 Australian of the Year election
- Voted Australia's “10 best” by the National Health & Medical Research Council in 2005 and 2010
- Voted one of the top 100 most influential residents of Sydney in 2008 and 2012
Works
Books (selection)
- S. Chapman, B. Freeman: Removing the emperor's clothes: Australia and tobacco plain packaging. Sydney University Press, Sydney 2014.
- S. Chapman, A. Barratt, M. Stockler: Let sleeping dogs lie What men should know before getting tested for prostate cancer. Sydney University Press, Sydney 2010.
- M. Scollo, M. Wakefield, D. Sullivan, L. Roberts, K. Purcell, S. Larkin, C. Connors, S. Chapman, V. Briggs, M. Daube: Technical Report No. 2 Tobacco Control in Australia: Making Smoking History. Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra 2008.
- S. Chapman: Public health advocacy and tobacco control: making smoking history. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 2007.
Articles in scientific journals (selection)
- Simon Chapman et al: Association Between Gun Law Reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia, 1979-2013 . In: Journal of the American Medical Association . tape 316 , no. 3 , 2016, p. 291–299 , doi : 10.1001 / jama.2016.8752 .
- Simon Chapman et al .: The Pattern of Complaints about Australian Wind Farms Does Not Match the Establishment and Distribution of Turbines: Support for the Psychogenic, 'Communicated Disease' Hypothesis. In: PLOS ONE . 2013, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0076584 .
- Simon Chapman, Ross MacKenzie: The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences. In: PLOS Medicine . Volume 7, No. 2, 2010, Article e1000216, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pmed.1000216 .
- Simon Chapman: The inverse impact law of smoking cessation. In: The Lancet . Volume 373, No. 9665, 2009, pp. 701-703, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (09) 60416-5 .
- Simon Chapman, Becky Freeman: Markers of the denormalization of smoking and the tobacco industry. In: Tobacco Control . Volume 17, 2008, pp. 25-31, doi: 10.1136 / tc.2007.021386 .
- Simon Chapman et al .: Impact of news of celebrity illness on breast cancer screening: Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis. In: Medical Journal of Australia . Volume 183, No. 5, 2005, pp. 247-250.
- Simon Chapman et al .: The impact of smoke-free workplaces on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States. In: American Journal of Public Health . Volume 89, No. 7.1999, pp. 1018-1023, doi: 10.2105 / AJPH.89.7.1018 .
- Simon Chapman et al .: Self-exempting beliefs about smoking and health: differences between smokers and ex-smokers. In: American Journal of Public Health. Volume 83, No. 2, 1993, pp. 215-219, doi: 10.2105 / AJPH.83.2.215 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b curriculum vitae . University of Sydney website. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chapman, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chapman, Simon Fenton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bowral |