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 NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) 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 Amelia Lake
  Deputy Director and Associate Director (Teesside)
  Reader in Public Health Nutrition, Teesside University
  
  
• Professor Carolyn Summerbell
  Associate 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
  
  
• Dr Floor Christie-de Jong
  Associate Director (Sunderland)
  Associate Professor in Public Health for Medicine, University of Sunderland
  
  
• Professor Joy Duxbury
  Associate Director (Cumbria)
  Professor of Mental Health, University of Cumbria
  
  
• Dr Peter van der Graaf
  Associate Director (Northumbria)
  Lead (Translational Research), Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Emma Giles
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change)
  Professor Integrating Physical & Mental Health, Teesside University
  
  
• Dr Angela Rodrigues
  Co-Lead (Behaviour Change), Northumbria 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
  Co-lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Professor of Applied Health and Social Care Research, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Philip Hodgson
  Co-lead (Healthy Ageing)
  Social Scientist and Lecturer in Health Research, Northumbria University
  
  
• Ann Payne
  SPHR/Fuse Administrator, Newcastle University
  
  
• Lesley Haley
  AskFuse Research Associate, Teesside University
  
  
• Agata Robertson
  Fuse Centre Manager, Newcastle University
  
  
• Eleanor Anderson
  Fuse Public Involvement and Engagement Manager, Newcastle University
  
  
• Mark Welford
  Fuse Communications Manager, Teesside University
  
  
• Cheryl Wiscombe
  Fuse Administrator, Newcastle University