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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.

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ "Verteporfin (Visudyne®) photo-dynamic therapy in the management of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy" (PDF). Northern Treatment Advisory Group. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
  7. ↑ "Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012" (PDF). Department of Health. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Davies, SC (2013). The Drugs Don't Work. Penguin. ISBN   978-0-241-96919-9.
  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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare". BBC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "TV chefs' recipes may be less healthy than ready meals, study finds". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Experts turn up heat on celebrity chef recipes". ABC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "TV chef recipes 'less healthy than ready meals'". Metro. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  15. ↑ Penders, B. (2013). "Television chefs aim for taste and appeal, not health". BMJ. 346: f240. doi:10.1136/bmj.f240. PMID   23321731. S2CID   21121056.
  16. ↑ Gard M and Pluim C (2014). Schools and Public Health. Lexington Books. ISBN   978-0-7391-7258-2.
  17. ↑ Howard, SJ (2010). Instant Opinion. Lulu Press. ISBN   1-84753-446-5.
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