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. OHID, 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 clusters. 

Membership of the Centre Strategy Board

• Professor Roland Bal (International Scientific Advisor)
  Professor of Health Governance
  Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
  
• Professor Clare Bambra (Newcastle)
  Professor of Public Health
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Floor Christie-de Jong (Sunderland) Associate Director
  Associate Professor in Public Health for Medicine
  University of Sunderland
  
  
• Professor Charlotte Clarke
  Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Health
  Durham University
  
  
• Dr Peter van der Graaf (Northumbria), Associate Director and Lead (Translational Research cluster)
  Associate Professor in Public Health
  Northumbria University

• Professor Eileen Kaner (Newcastle), Associate Director
  Professor of Public Health & Primary Care
  Newcastle University
  
  
• 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 Edward Kunonga
  Consultant in Public Health
  County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
  
  
• Professor Amelia Lake (Teesside), Associate Director
  Reader in Public Health Nutrition
  Teesside University
  
  
• Professor Sheena Ramsay (Newcastle), Director
  Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Ms Agata Robertson (Newcastle), Centre Manager 
  Population Health Sciences Institute
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Amanda Purington (International Scientific Advisor)
  Director of Evaluation and Research, ACT for Youth
  Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University, NY

• Professor Carolyn Summerbell (Durham), Deputy Director
  Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University