Assist individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. Conduct outreach for medical personnel or health organizations to implement programs in the community that promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health. May provide information on available resources, provide social support and informal counseling, advocate for individuals and community health needs, and provide services such as first aid and blood pressure screening. May collect data to help identify community health needs.
U.S. Workers
60,730
Median Salary
$51,030
10-Year Growth
+11.3%
Annual Openings
7,800
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent
25 of 29 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Maintain updated client records with plans, notes, appropriate forms, or related information.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and automation tools can extract, summarize, and populate client plans, notes, and forms into records and keep them updated with integrations.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to improving general health, such as diet or exercise.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can provide evidence-based advice on diet and exercise, create educational content, and deliver personalized recommendations at scale.
Distribute flyers, brochures, or other informational or educational documents to inform members of a targeted community.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can create tailored informational materials and coordinate digital and print distribution workflows to reach targeted communities.
Refer community members to needed health services.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can match community members to appropriate health services, generate referrals, and often schedule appointments or provide contact details automatically.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to sanitation or hygiene, such as flossing or hand washing.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably provide evidence-based sanitation and hygiene advice (e.g., flossing, handwashing) at scale and tailor messaging to audiences, enabling full automation of this advisory task.
Collect information from individuals to compile vital statistics about the general health of community members.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can collect standardized health information via forms or conversational agents and automatically compile and analyze it into vital statistics, enabling full automation with appropriate deployment.
Advise clients or community groups to ensure parental understanding of the importance of childhood immunizations and how to access immunization services.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can effectively educate parents about the importance of immunizations, assess comprehension, provide local access information, and help schedule appointments, enabling full automation of this advisory and navigation task.
Perform basic diagnostic procedures, such as blood pressure screening, breast cancer screening, or communicable disease screening.
AI: Partial - AI can support and automate parts of basic diagnostic screening (automated BP cuffs, image/scan triage, test interpretation) but cannot reliably perform hands‑on procedures or ensure correct physical technique in all community settings.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to diagnostic screenings, such as breast cancer screening, pap smears, glaucoma tests, or diabetes screenings.
AI: Partial - AI can provide accurate, evidence‑based advice and educational materials about diagnostic screenings at scale, but it lacks the full cultural tailoring, consent management, and trust-building a human CHW provides.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to risk or prevention of conditions such as lead poisoning, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), prenatal substance abuse, or domestic violence.
AI: Partial - AI can deliver risk‑reduction information, screening recommendations, and referrals for conditions like HIV or lead exposure, but cannot fully replace the empathetic, context‑sensitive counseling and safety planning humans provide (especially for domestic violence or substance abuse).
Identify the particular health care needs of individuals in a community or target area.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze population data, EMRs, and social determinants to identify community health needs at scale, but may miss granular local knowledge and interpersonal insights that CHWs capture in person.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to self-care, such as diabetes management.
AI: Partial - AI can provide diabetes self‑management education, coaching, and monitoring tools, yet it cannot fully replicate individualized clinical judgment and the motivational, culturally competent support of a human provider.
Identify or contact members of high-risk or otherwise targeted groups, such as members of minority populations, low-income populations, or pregnant women.
AI: Partial - AI can identify high-risk groups from datasets and assist with outreach targeting, but legal, ethical, and contextual considerations require human oversight and consent handling.
Contact clients in person, by phone, or in writing to ensure they have completed required or recommended actions.
AI: Partial - AI can contact clients by phone, SMS, or written communications automatically, but cannot perform in-person follow-ups or fully handle sensitive conversations without human involvement.
Advocate for individual or community health needs with government agencies or health service providers.
AI: Partial - AI can generate advocacy materials, policy analyses, and outreach communications to support advocacy efforts, but cannot fully substitute for human relationship‑building, negotiation, and representation with agencies and providers.
Teach appropriate parenting behaviors to individuals or families.
AI: Partial - AI can deliver parenting education, curricula, and behavior change support at scale, yet it cannot fully replace the individualized coaching, cultural sensitivity, and hands‑on modeling provided by human educators.
Report incidences of child or elder abuse, neglect, or threats of harm to authorities, as required.
AI: Partial - AI can flag, draft, and route reports and alerts about suspected abuse but cannot assume the legally required human mandated-reporter role or autonomously make official reports in most jurisdictions.
Teach classes or otherwise disseminate medical or dental health information to school groups, community groups, or targeted families or individuals, in a manner consistent with cultural norms.
AI: Partial - AI can create and deliver culturally adapted educational content and support virtual teaching, but it cannot fully reproduce the in-person, trust-based cultural competence and community relationship-building required for all contexts.
Assist families to apply for social services, including Medicaid or Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
AI: Partial - AI can guide users through eligibility checks, prefill applications, and track requirements, but cannot complete identity-verified submissions or manage complex casework without human involvement.
Advise clients or community groups on issues related to social or intellectual development, such as education, childcare, or problem solving.
AI: Partial - AI can provide educational resources, developmental advice, and problem-solving guidance, but it cannot fully replicate the nuanced, individualized, long-term, and culturally attuned support humans provide.
Provide basic health services, such as first aid.
AI: Partial - AI can deliver accurate first-aid instructions, decision support, and remote guidance, but it cannot perform the hands-on physical interventions required to fully provide basic health services.
Interpret, translate, or provide cultural mediation related to health services or information for community members.
AI: Partial - AI can translate language and surface cultural context and mediation cues, but full cultural mediation that requires trust-building, advocacy, and negotiation typically remains a human responsibility.
Monitor nutrition of children, elderly, or other high-risk groups.
AI: Partial - AI can monitor nutrition via data collection, image analysis, and trend detection at scale, but clinical interpretation and in-person assessments for high-risk individuals still require human professionals.
Develop plans or formal contracts for individuals, families, or community groups to improve overall health.
AI: Partial - AI can draft individualized health plans and formal contract templates using data and best practices, but cannot fully replace community-health-worker responsibilities like in-person assessment, trust-building, and ongoing follow-up.
Provide feedback to health service providers regarding improving service accessibility or acceptability.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze usage and equity data and generate actionable feedback to improve accessibility and acceptability, but lacks the local stakeholder engagement and authority to implement or validate culturally nuanced changes on its own.
Administer immunizations or other basic preventive treatments.
AI: Not automatable - Administering immunizations and other preventative treatments requires hands‑on clinical action, regulatory oversight, and physical presence that AI alone cannot perform in 2025.
Conduct home visits for pregnant women, newborn infants, or other high-risk individuals to monitor their progress or assess their needs.
AI: Not automatable - Conducting physical home visits to monitor high‑risk individuals requires in‑person assessment, hands‑on measurement, and safety judgment that AI cannot perform autonomously in 2025.
Transport or accompany clients to scheduled health appointments or referral sites.
AI: Not automatable - Transporting or physically accompanying clients to appointments is a logistical, legal, and safety task that AI systems cannot fully execute autonomously in real‑world community contexts today.
Attend community meetings or health fairs to understand community issues or build relationships with community members.
AI: Not automatable - AI cannot genuinely attend in-person community meetings or health fairs to build relationships and capture the full nuance of face-to-face community engagement.