Scientific strategy is led by the Director, who chairs the Research Strategy Group, bringing together the Fuse Senior Investigators including cluster leads, their deputies and the School of Public Health Research Senior Investigators. Cluster leads will provide intellectual leadership as well as ensuring that each cluster 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 Sheena Ramsay
  Director (Newcastle)
  Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology,
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Carolyn Summerbell
  Deputy Director (Durham)
  Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
  Durham 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
  
  
• Dr Floor Christie-de Jong (Sunderland) Associate Director
  Associate Director (Sunderland)
  Associate Professor in Public Health for Medicine
  University of Sunderland
  
  
• Professor Emma Giles
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change)
  Professor Integrating Physical & Mental Health, Teesside University
  
  
• Dr Angela Rodrigues
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change), Northumbria 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
  Co-Lead (Health Inequalities)
  Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Ruth McGovern
  Co-Lead (Early Life and Adolescence)
  Professor of Public Health and Social Care, Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Clare Bambra
  Programme Lead (Health Inequalities)
  Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
  
  
• Professor Sonia Dalkin
  Programme Co-lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Professor of Applied Health and Social Care Research, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Peter van der Graaf
  Associate Director (Northumbria)
  Programme Lead (Translational Research), Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Mandy Cheetham
  Programme Deputy Lead (Translational Research)
  Research Fellow, Northumbria University
  
  
• Mrs Ann Payne
  SPHR/Fuse Administrator
  Newcastle University
  
  
• Ms Lesley Haley
  AskFuse Research Associate, Teesside University
  
  
• Ms Agata Robertson
  Fuse Manager, Newcastle University
  
  
• Mr Mark Welford
  Fuse Communications Manager, Teesside University
  
  
• Miss Cheryl Wiscombe
  Fuse Administrator, Newcastle University