Scientific strategy is led by the Director, who chairs the Research Strategy Group, bringing together the Fuse senior Investigators including programme leaders their deputies the postgraduate tutor and the School of Public Health Research Senior Investigators. Programme leaders will provide intellectual leadership as well as ensuring that each programme delivers on agreed objectives. The Research Strategy Group reports to the Centre Management Group (CMG). Strategic and scientific direction is overseen by the Centre Strategy Board.

Membership of the Research Strategy Group

• Professor Ashley Adamson
  Director (Newcastle)
  Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Carolyn Summerbell
  Deputy Director (Durham)
  Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
  Durham University
  
  
• Professor Susan Carr
  Associate Director (Northumbria)
  Professor of Public Health Research, Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Eileen Kaner
  Associate Director (Newcastle) 
  Professor of Public Health Research, Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Amelia Lake
  Associate Director (Teesside)
  Reader in Public Health Nutrition, Teesside University
  
  
• Professor Monique Lhussier
  Associate Director (Northumbria)
  Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Emma Giles
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change)
  Senior Research Lecturer, Teesside University
  
  
• Dr Angela Rodrigues
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change), Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Luke Vale
  Programme Lead (Complex Systems)
  Fuse Senior Investigator and Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Joanne Gray
  Co-Lead (Complex Systems)
  Associate Professor, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Steph Scott
  Co-Lead (Complex Systems)
  Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Shelina Visram
  Deputy Lead (Health Inequalities)
  Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Nicola Heslehurst
  Co-Lead (Early Life and Adolescence)
  Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Ruth McGovern
  Co-Lead (Early Life and Adolescence)
  Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Naomi Griffin
  Deputy Lead (Early Life and Adolescence)
  Research Associate, Durham University
  
  
• Professor Clare Bambra
  Programme Lead (Health Inequalities)
  Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Sonia Dalkin
  Programme Co-lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Sheena Ramsay
  Programme Co-lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Gemma Wilson-Menzfeld
  Programme Co-Lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Peter van der Graaf
  Programme Lead (Translational Research)
  AskFuse Research Manager, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Mandy Cheetham
  Programme Deputy Lead (Translational Research)
  Research Fellow, Northumbria University
  
  
• Mrs Ann Payne
  SPHR/Fuse Administrator
  Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
  
  
• Ms Lesley Haley
  AskFuse Research Associate, Teesside University
  
  
• Mrs Laura Ritson
  Fuse Manager
  Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
  
  
• Mr Mark Welford
  Fuse Communications Manager, Teesside University
  
  
• Miss Cheryl Wiscombe
  Fuse Administrator
  Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University