Nestle Skin Health to open 10 innovation hubs globally

Nestlé Skin Health will open ten innovation hubs around the world with the first one to be inaugurated in New York next year.

The New York hub will be followed by those in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo and other regions in North America, Asia and Europe.

To be a part of Nestle’s Skin Health Investigation, Education and Longevity Development (Shield) network, the innovation hubs will collaborate with healthcare professionals from the fields of dermatology, general medicine, aging, nursing and technology.

The collaborations will enable development of solutions and techniques that will promote a life course of healthy skin through medical investigation, education and application of skin health technologies.

Nestle said in a statement that the initiative is a response to the expected rise in skin health needs as the importance of skin health in the well-being of a rapidly growing aging population has become paramount.

The hubs will enable the professionals to interact with new products and technologies.

Nestlé Skin Health CEO Humberto Antunes said: "This is an important opportunity for skin health research in light of rising skin challenges that result particularly from our enhanced longevity and the rapid population aging phenomenon emerging in country after country around the globe.

"We are committed to working with scientists and healthcare professionals to create an eco-system in which solutions and information can be developed to facilitate better maintenance, prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies that will help people today and in the future enjoy a life course of healthy skin."

Nestle is undertaking the Shield programme in partnership with the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), a global business strategy group focused on the economic and social implications of population aging.

Global Coalition on Aging executive director Michael Hodin said: "We are excited to partner with Nestlé Skin Health and the Shield network. These innovation hubs will play an important role in helping us all better understand the importance of a life course of healthy skin and its role in supporting healthy and active aging."