About fuse international conference
Local Organising Committee
Chair
Peter van der Graaf
AskFuse Research Manager
Teesside University
Susan Carr
Professor of Public Health Research
Northumbria University
Mandy Cheetham
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Teesside University
Anna Christie
Public Health Knowledge and Intelligence Lead
North East Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, Public Health England
Floor Christie
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
University of Sunderland
Natalie Forster
Research Fellow
Northumbria University
Frances Hillier-Brown
Teaching Fellow
Durham University
Emma Gibson
Programme Lead
Gateshead Public Health, Gateshead Council
Laura Ritson
Fuse Manager
Newcastle University
Annmarie Ruse
AskFuse Assistant Administrator
Shelina Visram
Senior Lecturer in public health
Newcastle University
Mark Welford
Communications Officer
Teesside University
Cheryl Wiscombe
Fuse Administrator
Newcastle University
Scientific Planning Committee
Chair
Peter van der Graaf
AskFuse Research Manager
Teesside University
Ashley Adamson
Director of Fuse and NIHR School for Public Health Research
Newcastle University
Roland Bal
Professor of Healthcare Governance
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tracy Finch
Professor of Healthcare & Implementation Science
Northumbria University
Jane Powers
Project Director
ACT for Youth
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Cornell University
Amanda Purington
Director of Evaluation and Research
ACT for Youth
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Cornell University
Gayle Scarrow
Director
Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
About previous fuse conferences
Fuse founded the International Conference on Knowledge Exchange in Public Health as part of its mission to deliver world-class public health research, build sustainable capacity, and build effective and lasting partnerships.
The first conference was held in April 2011 and attracted more than 150 delegates from all over the world to Durham in North East England.
A second event themed “How to get practice into science” was hosted in 2013 by Tranzo at Tilburg University in Holland, followed by a third UK conference in April 2016 on the theme of “Evidence to Impact in Public Health" hosted by Fuse in Newcastle-Gateshead.
The fourth conference in Vancouver, Canada in May 2018 was held in partnership with the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). This explored the challenges encountered when using evidence, including conflicting evidence, in policy-making.
IN 2021 the conference will make a welcome return to North East England. Fuse has partnered with the MSFHR in Canada, Cornell University in the USA, and Tilburg and Erasmus Universities in the Netherlands, to deliver what we hope will be an even bigger and better conference on all things knowledge exchange. The daring topic for the conference is "Learning from setbacks and successes".
