How do they match: Health Education Specialists

  • Public Health Technologist

  • 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.

  • Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs.
  • Develop, conduct, or coordinate health needs assessments and other public health surveys.
  • Provide guidance to agencies and organizations on assessment of health education needs and on development and delivery of health education programs.
  • Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, or maintaining program-related Web sites.

  • Assess individual or community needs for educational or social services.
  • Develop tools to diagnose or assess needs.