Will AI replace Health Education Specialists?
AI reaches a large part of this job’s work.
49/100
High exposure
More exposed to AI than 79% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 11% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 75% of the work
What the job involves
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(2)
- Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.
- Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government.
Within reach(10)
- Document activities and record information, such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted.
- Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.
- Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.
- Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
- Develop and maintain health education libraries to provide resources for staff and community agencies.
and 5 more
Out of reach(4)
- Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
- Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.
- Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.
- Develop, conduct, or coordinate health needs assessments and other public health surveys.
Also called
Public Health Educator · Health Educator · Community Health Worker (CHW) · CHW · Diabetes Educator · Lactation Consultant · Public Health Instructor · Certified Diabetes Educator
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics