HealthSmart was developed by experts in the field of health education.
The first edition of HealthSmart was developed by Dr. Bill Kane, Dr. Susan Telljohann, and Hilda Quiroz Graham, with considerable support from ETR’s health education content editors and product development team. These same developers worked on the second edition of Middle and High School, with the addition of assessment expert and consultant Susan Giarratano Russell. For the second edition of Grades K–5, and the new third edition of Middle and High School, development was led by Dr. Telljohann and Suzanne Schrag, the HealthSmart series editor.