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For nearly 30 years, Health Sciences has been charged with a crucial leadership role as the guardian of scientific integrity and credibility here at Shaklee. Fundamentally, Health Sciences is the architect, advocate, and spokesperson for Shaklee's commitment to science and the keeper of the scientific and health rationale for each and every nutritional product and program marketed by Shaklee. With Roger Barnett's vision and the leadership of Dr. Jamie McManus, Health Sciences will keep Shaklee aligned with its 50-year scientific heritage and highest code of ethics nurtured and developed over the last 50 years. Furthermore, we will keep Shaklee Science in concert with future health trends, emerging technologies, and scientific innovation.

The primary goal of Health Sciences is the technical support of ideation, product concept development, and scientific substantiation for the marketing of Shaklee nutritional products that are safe, effective, and meet real world customer needs. This includes working closely with our talented Research and Development teams to identify optimal ingredient sources, dosage levels, and delivery forms to ensure product safety, performance, and quality in each and every Shaklee nutritional product.

Health Sciences also designs and coordinates controlled scientific research and clinical trials often resulting in publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. This tradition and commitment to scientific research separates Shaklee from the competition and more importantly, proves our products meet established safety and performance standards.   

Health Sciences is also the key corporate resource for the creation and communication of technical product information and science-based product claims for our Shaklee customers and distributors.  Health Sciences partners with our Marketing, Sales, and Legal departments to ensure that product messaging is accurate, credible, and meaningful to our customers and distributors.

To accomplish these objectives, Health Sciences has functional responsibilities for:

• Assessment of the scientific literature and networking with the scientific community to identify emerging health issues, functional ingredients, new product concepts, and appropriate user populations.
• Conducting and coordinating scientific research on potential new and existing Shaklee products in order to assess safety and efficacy;
• Developing diversified health content for use within other departmental areas and in the field in print, web, audio, and video, DVD, and live presentation formats,
• Providing scientifically sound support and substantiation for product claims used in Shaklee product labeling and collateral Marketing materials.
• Product training, direct field correspondence, health professional communications, and adverse events monitoring

Health Sciences also manages the Shaklee Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) objectives and member relations. Member expertise currently includes antioxidant biochemistry and disease prevention in aging, herbal medicine, sports medicine, heat stress, and fluid rehydration; international health, nutrition, and dietary supplement policy and regulations, South African Herbs, and Immunology and Kampo medicine.