Social Services
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.
Median salary
$63,000
Typical range
$42k – $113k
Job outlook
+5% (faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to Health Education Specialists
Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
Junior Health Education Specialists
Entry / Junior
$42,210
~2 yrs to advance
Health Education Specialists
Established
$63,000
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Health Education Specialists
Senior
$87,950
Key skills
A typical day
- •Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns.
- •Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
- •Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.
- •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.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Social Services
Explore all- University of Michigan18% admit · $87,000 grad pay
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill19% admit · $73,000 grad pay
- University of Chicago5% admit · $91,000 grad pay
- Columbia University4% admit · $103,000 grad pay
- University of Wisconsin–Madison49% admit · $72,000 grad pay
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