Professor Simon Chapman

Professor Public Health
Director of Research
Associate Dean Communications

Public Health, School of Public Health

A27 - Edward Ford Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Research interests

Simon Chapman is Professor in Public Health. He is a sociologist with a PhD on the semiotics of cigarette advertising, author of 11 books and major government reports and 192 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Chapman\'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.

Current national competitive grants

2006

The future of tobacco control: exploring the feasibility acceptability and cost-effectiveness of new policy directions
Chapman S
NHMRC Research Grants ($152,650 over 3 years)