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Five on Friday: Voces de confianza / Trusted Messenger

Five on Friday: Voces de confianza / Trusted Messenger

Mar 4, 2022
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It's Friday! Let's jump into MCN staff members’ inboxes to pick up some health news that we may have missed. And, with the world as it presently is, we offer up a double weekly win to soothe our…
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MCN Drives Forward Health Equity with $5 Million Gift from MacKenzie Scott

Mar 2, 2022
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Migrant Clinicians Network’s exceptional work to advance health equity for migrant, immigrant, and asylum-seeking communities has been honored and elevated by a $5 million gift from author and…
Five on Friday: Tu voz importa / Your voice matters Photovoice Project

Five on Friday: Tu voz importa / Your voice matters Photovoice Project

Feb 25, 2022
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This is a very exciting weekend for our Chico, California office – Tu voz importa photography exhibit is opening at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology! This exhibit will feature the photos…
Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019.

In Memoriam: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Feb 22, 2022
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Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019. This week, the world lost one of its most vocal and effective champions of health equity, Paul Farmer, MD, PhD. Dr. Farmer is…
Five on Friday: COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Centers

Five on Friday: Cancer Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Feb 18, 2022
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It’s Friday! Time to peek into the inboxes of MCN staff. Each week, we share lots of news, resources, and videos among ourselves to keep up to date. Here are a few we wanted to highlight, including…
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We Hear You: Opening Ourselves to What Health Care Workers Are Feeling Now

Feb 17, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: In this monthly blog post, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, provides stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these…
Workers lay pavement

Heat Stress: Where Health Inequity Meets Climate Change

Feb 16, 2022
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In January, Colorado became the latest state to adopt heat stress regulations to protect farmworkers and other outdoor workers from the higher temperatures and more frequent heat events that are…
Five on Friday: COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Centers

Five on Friday: COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Centers

Feb 11, 2022
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Happy Friday to you! Here, we offer up five pieces recommended by the staff of Migrant Clinicians Network, including one Weekly Win, to keep you up to date in the world of health justice.…
Farmers installing irrigation equipment in the dark

Overtime Pay: Why Are Farmworkers Excluded?

Feb 10, 2022
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Last week, the New York State Wage Board passed three resolutions that will finally provide overtime for farmworkers working for more than 40 hours a week. The resolutions also delineate a ten-year…
A parent and child

How to Prioritize Fun during Tough Times

Feb 8, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: Here, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, provides tips to de-stress by seeking out fun, as part of our ongoing blog series from MCN’s Witness to Witness. The W2W page offers numerous resources…
Five on Friday: Overtime Pay For Farmworkers

Five on Friday: Overtime Pay For Farmworkers

Feb 4, 2022
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It’s Friday again! Lots of updates in the world of health justice this week, including a double weekly win, so let’s get right to it: More and more research is confirming that the COVID…
Partner Spotlight: Lideres Campesinas of California

Partner Spotlight: Lideres Campesinas of California

Feb 3, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221 community health…
Five on Friday: Factors That May Increase Chances of Long COVID

Five on Friday: Factors That May Increase Chances of Long COVID

Jan 28, 2022
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Happy Friday! Another week rapidly comes to a close. Here, we offer up five pieces that you might have missed, offered by MCN staff. Claire noted that Type 2 Diabetes is one of four factors…
Partner Spotlight: Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

Partner Spotlight: Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

Jan 26, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221 community…
Clinician speaking with patient

Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras

Jan 25, 2022
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By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network  Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to assist…
Five on Friday: Racial Disparities in Communication

Five on Friday: Racial Disparities in Communication

Jan 21, 2022
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Friday is here! A relaxing weekend awaits -- for those of us who work M-F, that is. For those whose weekend falls elsewhere, no need to wait, you can read Five on Friday now, to help you get caught…
Two people wearing masks

How to Help Someone through the Uncertainty of Waiting

Jan 20, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: In this month’s Witness to Witness blog post, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, Director of Witness to Witness, offers us perspective on uncertainty. Visit Witness to Witness page here. You…
Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Jan 18, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) is a network of health outreach programs operating out of each of the Mexican Consulates in the US. Migrant Clinicians Network has been a longtime advisor to…
Five on Friday: Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants in California

Five on Friday: Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants in California

Jan 14, 2022
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With Omicron cases still spiking, it’s no wonder that the articles we shared internally this week at MCN were mostly about COVID. But there are other health news that we shared as well -- actually…
Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

Jan 13, 2022
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  [Editor’s Note: Since July 2021 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition (RC) and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221…
Five on Friday: Moral Injury Among Nurses

Five on Friday: Moral Injury Among Nurses

Jan 6, 2022
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Happy New Year from Migrant Clinicians Network! We have lots of work to do in 2022 in health justice. Here are a few resources, recommended by MCN staff, to help us push forward. Kaethe sent…
Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Jan 4, 2022
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[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition (RC) and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221…
Five on Friday: Happy New Year's Eve

Five on Friday: Happy New Year's Eve 2021

Dec 30, 2021
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Happy New Year's Eve! Before you head out to (safely) ring in the new year, we wanted to offer up five end-of-year recommendations that you can lean on in the new year. Kaethe originally…
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Hope and Celebration: Top Six MCN Blogs of 2021

Dec 29, 2021
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The end of the year presents opportunities for growth and reflection around future goals and visions. Here at Migrant Clinicians Network, we gather (this year, virtually) during the first few weeks…
A mother and child receive supplies from clinician

Climate-Impacted Communities Deserve Better, with Myrellis Muñiz-Márquez

Dec 28, 2021
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  [Editor’s Note: In this post, Myrellis Muñiz-Márquez, MCN’s Puerto Rico Program Manager, delineates some of the ways that the climate crisis is exacerbating health inequities. MCN’s Puerto Rico…
Five on Friday: Happy Holidays 2021

Five on Friday: Happy Holidays 2021

Dec 23, 2021
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Tamales, posole, pie, Chinese food, ponche, challah, pasteles, cannolis, cuernitos... many different foods and drinks define the holiday season for all of us at MCN. This week, in recognition that…