Simon Howard

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][3] and on topics related to respiratory,[4][5] and ophthalmic health.[6] 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.[7][8] He has contributed to or co-authored a number of other works with Davies.[9][10]

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.[11] The article received considerable coverage in the news media,[12][13][14][15] while some scholars criticised the assumption that "health ought to prominently inform TV cooking."[16][17]

In 2010, Howard re-published a compilation of his political blog posts in a book titled Instant Opinion.[18]

References
  1. Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
  2. Howard, S. J. (2015). "An Observational Study Of Practice Among Food Manufacturers In Defining Serving Sizes Of Chocolate Confectionery Products Sold In UK Supermarkets". International Journal of Nutrition. 1 (4): 1–7. doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-15-880.
  3. 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: i2430. doi:10.1136/bmj.i2430.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. "Verteporfin (Visudyne®) photo-dynamic therapy in the management of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy" (PDF). Northern Treatment Advisory Group. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  7. Biography on sjhoward.co.uk
  8. "Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012" (PDF). Department of Health. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  9. Davies, SC (2013). The Drugs Don't Work. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-96919-9.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. "Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare". BBC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  13. "TV chefs' recipes may be less healthy than ready meals, study finds". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  14. "Experts turn up heat on celebrity chef recipes". ABC News. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  15. "TV chef recipes 'less healthy than ready meals'". Metro. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  16. Penders, B. (2013). "Television chefs aim for taste and appeal, not health". BMJ. 346: f240. doi:10.1136/bmj.f240. PMID 23321731.
  17. Gard M and Pluim C (2014). Schools and Public Health. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-7258-2.
  18. Howard, SJ (2010). Instant Opinion. Lulu Press. ISBN 1-84753-446-5.
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