How do they match: Health Education Specialists

  • Certified Breastfeeding Educator
  • Certified Diabetes Educator
  • Certified Health Education Specialist
  • Certified Lactation Counselor
  • Certified Lactation Educator

  • 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.

  • Document activities and record information, such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted.
  • Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, or maintaining program-related Web sites.