Simon John Howard is a public health physician working in the North East of England. He has authored or co-authored a number of articles on public health in medical journals, and served as Public Health Registrar to Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies from 2013–2014, acting as Editor-in-Chief of the 2012 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer.
Biography
Howard qualified as a medical doctor with the degree MBBS from Newcastle University in 2008. He was awarded an MSc in Public Health and Health Services Research from Newcastle University in 2011. [1]
He has authored and co-authored articles which criticise current nutritional labelling practices in the UK, [2] and on topics related to respiratory, [3] [4] and ophthalmic health. [5] From 2013–2014, Howard served as Public Health Registrar to Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies, and acted as Editor-in-Chief of the 2012 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer. [6] [7] He has contributed to or co-authored a number of other works with Davies. [8] [9]
In 2012, Howard co-wrote a study in the British Medical Journal that compared the nutritional content of television chefs' recipes and supermarket meals. The study found that the chefs' meals were "less healthy" than ready-made supermarket meals. [10] The article received considerable coverage in the news media, [11] [12] [13] [14] while some scholars criticised the assumption that "health ought to prominently inform TV cooking." [15] [16]
In 2010, Howard re-published a compilation of his political blog posts in a book titled Instant Opinion. [17]
References
- ^ Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
- ^ Howard, Simon J (2016). "Labelling food with the exercise needed to expend its calories may lack integrity when activity is summed over the course of a whole day". BMJ. 353: i2430. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2430. PMID 27143626. S2CID 28747899.
- ^ Funston, Wendy; Howard, Simon J. (2016). "A cross-sectional questionnaire study of the rules governing pupils' carriage of inhalers for asthma treatment in secondary schools in North East England". PeerJ. 4: e2006. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2006. PMC 4860314. PMID 27168999.
- ^ Funston, W.; Howard, S.J. (2015). "Uptake of the emergency salbutamol inhaler in North East England secondary schools following amendment of the Human Medicines Regulations". Thorax. 70 (A124): A124.1–A124. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207770.234.
- ^ "Verteporfin (Visudyne®) photo-dynamic therapy in the management of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy" (PDF). Northern Treatment Advisory Group. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
- ^ "Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012" (PDF). Department of Health. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Davies, SC (2013). The Drugs Don't Work. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-96919-9.
- ^ Howard, S. J.; Davies, S. C. (2014). "Chief medical officer urges action to tackle overweight and obesity". BMJ. 348: g2375. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g2375. PMID 24677657. S2CID 6223248.
- ^ Howard, S.; Adams, J.; White, M. (2012). "Nutritional content of supermarket ready meals and recipes by television chefs in the United Kingdom: Cross sectional study". BMJ. 345: e7607. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7607. PMC 3524368. PMID 23247976.
- ^ "Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare". BBC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "TV chefs' recipes may be less healthy than ready meals, study finds". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Experts turn up heat on celebrity chef recipes". ABC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "TV chef recipes 'less healthy than ready meals'". Metro. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Penders, B. (2013). "Television chefs aim for taste and appeal, not health". BMJ. 346: f240. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f240. PMID 23321731. S2CID 21121056.
- ^ Gard M and Pluim C (2014). Schools and Public Health. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-7258-2.
- ^ Howard, SJ (2010). Instant Opinion. Lulu Press. ISBN 1-84753-446-5.