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Allied Health
In the United States, the allied health workforce comprises around nine million professionals across more than 80 specialized roles. These individuals make up nearly 60% of all U.S. healthcare personnel.
Globally, there are an estimated 30 million allied health professionals (2024), but the World Health Organization reports that a shortfall of around 2 million allied health professionals persists. This shortage reflects urgent workforce expansion needs, especially for rehabilitation occupations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where provider densities often fall below 0.1 professionals per 10,000 population. The inability for many LMICs to employ, adequately compensate, and retain workforce talent continues to contribute to the decision of some allied health professionals to seek work and opportunity in other countries.
There is a global demand for allied health workers, and the need for portable credentials that can enable career mobility—whether in country or abroad—will continue to be critical to this workforce. Global shortage, the need for career advancement pathways, and the pursuit of opportunity will continue to shape the distribution of this workforce around the globe and drive career advancement. And the ability to demonstrate and validate education, experience, and credentials will be the passport to those opportunities.
How we support allied health workers
TruMerit supports the career advancement and mobility goals of people serving in the allied health occupations identified below through credentials verification and evaluation, specialty certification, and professional development resourcing—depending on occupational role and applicable programs.
Rehabilitative Care
We help global care workers in rehabilitative and habilitative medicine validate their education, experience, and credentials through either verification or evaluation (or both) to support those seeking a visa to work in another country. We also offer the first-ever global credentials for rehab workers and advanced rehab professionals (PT/OT) to support international career portability. Click below to learn more about these and other services.
Speech and Hearing Therapy
We support practitioners in the speech and hearing medicine space with verification services and career development resources. Click below to learn more.
Laboratory Science
Both technicians and technologists in clinical laboratory and medical laboratory science can seek health worker certification and credentials verification through TruMerit, as well as other career development resources. Click below to learn more.
Sports Medicine
For foreign-educated practitioners seeking eligibility to work in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, or the UK, we offer credentials evaluation services and professional development resources. Click below to learn more.
Physician Assistants / Associates
For foreign-educated practitioners seeking eligibility to work as physician assistants/associates in the U.S., TruMerit can support health worker certification and credentials verification in addition to other career development resources. Click below to learn more.
Did you know?
*TruMerit is the only organization approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to provide health care worker certification for the allied health professions eligible for occupational visas issued by USCIS. Learn more about our VisaScreen® services on those pages indicated above.
For all the allied health occupations listed above, TruMerit offers documentation management services, course-by-course evaluations, and career development resources—like access to English language proficiency upskilling courses—in addition to the core verification, evaluation, and/or certification services we provide. Find out more at the links above.
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