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Last Update: 11/21/2025
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
60.6%
Median Score
Changing Fast
Evolving
Stable
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These roles are shifting as AI becomes part of everyday workflows. Expect new responsibilities and new opportunities.
AI Resilience Report for
Health Education Specialists
They teach people how to stay healthy by providing information on nutrition, exercise, and disease prevention to improve community well-being.
Summary
The career of a Health Education Specialist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is starting to assist with routine tasks like drafting health pamphlets and managing data, making those processes faster and more efficient. While AI can help with information sharing, the key human aspects—such as building trust, understanding local communities, and leading teams—remain essential.
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The career of a Health Education Specialist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is starting to assist with routine tasks like drafting health pamphlets and managing data, making those processes faster and more efficient. While AI can help with information sharing, the key human aspects—such as building trust, understanding local communities, and leading teams—remain essential.
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AI Resilience
All scores are converted into percentiles showing where this career ranks among U.S. careers. For models that measure impact or risk, we flip the percentile (subtract it from 100) to derive resilience.
CareerVillage.org's AI Resilience Analysis
AI Task Resilience
Evolving66.7%
66.7%
Microsoft's Working with AI
AI Applicability
Evolving38.2%
38.2%
Anthropic's Economic Index
AI Resilience
Evolving50.5%
50.5%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Stable91.7%
91.7%
Medium Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
4.5%
Growth Percentile:
68.7%
Annual Openings:
7.9
Annual Openings Pct:
48.6%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Health Ed Specialists
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 11/21/2025
State of Automation & Augmentation
Health education specialists do many tasks involving information and communication. Core duties include keeping records (like how many people attended programs) and managing databases or mailing lists, as noted by the US Dept of Labor [1]. Today, most of that work uses computers and standard software.
New AI tools can help: for example, chatbots based on large language models can draft clear health pamphlets or answer common questions. In tests, medical AI chatbots often answered vaccine questions more accurately than students [2]. A nonprofit in India even used a ChatGPT-like app to give women safe sexual health advice [3].
These tools speed up writing and outreach, but experts still check the results.
Other tasks – like supervising staff, designing program evaluations, or giving community-specific guidance – rely on human skills. AI is not great at managing people or understanding every local context. For instance, creating a plan to assess a program’s quality or coaching a team needs judgment and trust.
So far we haven’t seen health education programs run fully by AI; instead, AI usually assists specialists. In short, routine data tasks and basic content can be automated or augmented by AI, while highly social and creative parts remain with people [1] [3].
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AI Adoption
AI tools for education and administration are widely available, so it can be cheap for organizations to start using them. Many AI programs (even free chatbots) can draft reports or generate posts, which could save time. This means agencies with tight budgets might experiment with AI to reach more people.
However, public health programs are also careful about privacy and accuracy. Misinformation in health is risky, so any AI-generated advice must be checked by a person [3]. Cultural and language issues (mentioned in the chatbot study) mean specialists are needed to make sure messages are right.
Overall, AI adoption may grow slowly. Large organizations might pilot AI solutions if they see economic benefits (like serving more people at lower cost), but widespread use will likely require training, oversight, and clear rules. Young health educators can take comfort in knowing that the human side of their work – building trust, adapting to local needs, and leading teams – stays valuable.
Many experts believe AI will change jobs, but it will also create new roles (like guiding or checking AI systems) so that caring skills remain at the core of health education [2] [3].
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$63,000
Jobs (2024)
71,800
Growth (2024-34)
+4.5%
Annual Openings
7,900
Education
Bachelor's degree
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.
2
Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
3
Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
4
Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.
5
Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.
6
Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs.
7
Provide guidance to agencies and organizations on assessment of health education needs and on development and delivery of health education programs.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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