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Community & Social Services · Updated Aug 2026

Health Education Specialists

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
71/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
54/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Document activities and record information, such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted.High
71
Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.High
72
Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.High
72
Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.High
73
Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.Medium
67
Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.Medium
73
Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, or maintaining program-related Web sites.Medium
74
Develop and maintain health education libraries to provide resources for staff and community agencies.Medium
65
Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government.Medium
73
Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.Medium
70
Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.Medium
72
Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs.Medium
72
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, or maintaining program-related Web sites.74
  2. Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.73
  3. Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.73
  4. Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government.73
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Document activities and record information, such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted.01
  2. Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.02
  3. Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.03
  4. Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.04
  5. Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency87
Physical dependency35
Adoption pressure53
Labour-market resilience63
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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