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.
65,690 people do this job in the US. $64,070 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 8%. Today's estimate: 11%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 16 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 15% | 2.1 work days5 h to 1.7 work weeks | 1%Half by Jun 2028 | |
| Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government.Done yearly or less by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 12% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1.3 work weeks | 2%Half by May 2028 | |
| Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 10% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Develop, prepare, and coordinate grant applications and grant-related activities to obtain funding for health education programs and related work.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 10% | 2.1 work days5 h to 1.7 work weeks | 1%Half by Jun 2028 | |
| Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1 work week | 2%Half by Apr 2028 | |
| Develop, conduct, or coordinate health needs assessments and other public health surveys.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work days6.7 h to 1.7 work weeks | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 6% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.7 work days | 21%Half by May 2027 | |
| Design and administer training programs for new employees and continuing education for existing employees.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 work days2.5 h to 4.2 work days | 3%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Develop and maintain health education libraries to provide resources for staff and community agencies.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 4% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1.3 work days | Stays with people | |
| Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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