Strategic and scientific direction is the responsibility of, and ensured by a Centre Strategy Board (CSB), with an independent, non-executive chair, and membership including senior representatives from key policy and practice partners in public health (e.g. Public Health England, local government, voluntary and community sectors), and four independent scientific advisors from the UK and overseas. The board is attended by the director, deputy directors, associate directors at the five north east universities, and leaders of Fuse’s six research programmes. Our funders’ liaison officer from MRC is also invited as an observer:

Membership of the Centre Strategy Board

• Professor Peter Kelly (Chair) (Local Government public health representative)
  OHID Regional Director and NHS Director of Public Health – North East & Yorkshire
  Office for Health Improvement & Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care
   
• Professor Roland Bal (International Scientific Advisor)
  Professor of Health Governance
  Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
  
• Dr Jane Powers (International Scientific Advisor)
  Project Director for Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth Center for Community Action
  Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University, NY
   
• Professor Kate Hunt
  National Adviser
  University of Stirling

• Professor Ashley Adamson, (Newcastle) director
  Professor of Public Health Nutrition
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Clare Bambra (Newcastle), programme lead (health inequalities)
  Professor of Public Health
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Susan Carr (Northumbria) associate director 
  Professor of Public Health Research 
  Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Monique Lhussier (Northumbria) associate director
  Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellbeing
  Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Sonia Dalkin (Northumbria), programme lead (healthy ageing)
  Senior Lecturer
  Northumbria University

• Dr Peter van der Graaf (Northumbria), programme lead (translational research)
  AskFuse Research Manager
  Northumbria University

• Professor Eileen Kaner (Newcastle), associate director
  Professor of Public Health & Primary Care
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Amelia Lake (Teesside), associate director
  Reader in Public Health Nutrition
  Teesside University
  
  
• Mrs Laura Ritson (Newcastle), Centre Manager 
  Population Health Sciences Institute
  Newcastle University

• Professor Carolyn Summerbell (Durham), deputy director
  Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
  
  
• Professor Luke Vale (Newcastle), programme lead (complex systems)
  Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics, Population Health Sciences Institute
  Newcastle University