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MCN Welcomes New Board Members, Thanks Departing Member

MCN Welcomes New Board Members, Thanks Departing Member

Jun 5, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Migrant Clinicians Network is pleased to welcome three new members to our Board of Directors, broadening the set of skills that our esteemed board brings to their work and ensuring we push forward…
Creativity in Community to Restore Your Energia

Creativity in Community to Restore Your Energía

May 30, 2025
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Today, my friend said to me, “I think our dance practice is working for me like a vaccine.” My friend and I meet weekly over Zoom. We've been dancing together for over a decade, in a variety of…
Health Network: Outreach Workers Can Now Enroll; New Resources on Website

Health Network: Outreach Workers Can Now Enroll; New Resources on Website

May 22, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A farmworker who needs to move northward to help with the next harvest – who has diabetes and needs more insulin. A person whose home was burned down during a wildfire, who is in the middle of…
Ventanilla de Salud In Action: Bringing Health Education through Games, Culture, & Community Engagement

Ventanilla de Salud In Action: Bringing Health Education through Games, Culture, & Community Engagement

May 14, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In Mexican Consulates across the country, Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) offices offer health resources and information to Mexican nationals and other members of the Latinx community, free of charge.…
Finding the Ever-Present Supports in Your Life

Finding the Ever-Present Supports in Your Life

Apr 24, 2025
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Recently, a beleaguered friend, I will call him J, read something to me from a book that meant a lot to him. He is in a work situation in which he cares deeply about the work that he does and…
Measles: Current Update, Basic Facts, and Upcoming Webinars

Measles: Current Update, Basic Facts, and Upcoming Webinars

Apr 15, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Measles is a highly contagious acute respiratory virus that was previously considered to be eliminated in the United States. Since late January of 2025, there have been a total of at least 712…
Streamline: Congenital Syphilis on the Rise, Requires Increase in Index of Suspicion

Streamline: Congenital Syphilis on the Rise, Requires Increase in Index of Suspicion

Apr 10, 2025
By: Renai Edwards
While congenital syphilis is completely preventable, cases in the United States have risen 740.3% over 10 years -- from 462 cases in 2014 to 3,882 cases in 2023. Congenital syphilis case…
Avian Flu FAQ for Clinicians Serving Workers

Avian Flu FAQ for Clinicians Serving Workers

Apr 3, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
As avian flu continues to sicken workers across the United States, Migrant Clinicians Network seeks to provide clinicians and health advocates with reliable information so they can best serve…
What Does It Take to End TB? A Lifetime of Advocacy, with Deliana Garcia

What Does It Take to End TB? A Lifetime of Advocacy, with Deliana Garcia

Mar 24, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By the time you’ve finished reading this paragraph, someone will have died from tuberculosis. TB has regained its number one spot at the top of the list of infectious disease killers, after a brief…
Finding Strength in the Fire: Witnessing, Grief, and the Power of Community

Finding Strength in the Fire: Witnessing, Grief, and the Power of Community

Mar 18, 2025
By: Pamela Secada-Sayles
We are now three months into the new year, and I find myself reflecting on the immense challenges we’ve all faced, both personally and collectively. Uncertainty continues to weigh heavily on many…
Involving Communities in Health Messaging with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

Involving Communities in Health Messaging with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

Feb 27, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For decades, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) have sustained a valuable relationship removing barriers to communities who…
Preparing Patients for Cancer Treatment Decisions

Preparing Patients for Cancer Treatment Decisions

Feb 18, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Primary care providers, including physicians, physician associates/physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, who have referred their patients to specialists for cancer treatment in the past…
Strategies for a Firehose of News

Strategies for a Firehose of News

Feb 11, 2025
By: Kaethe Weingarten
When facing a firehose of news, how do I cope? That is the question I have been asking myself these past few weeks, and many people I talk to are also asking themselves this question. I think it…
Migrant Clinicians Network Project Enhances Patient Navigation for Cancer in Puerto Rico

Migrant Clinicians Network Project Enhances Patient Navigation for Cancer in Puerto Rico

Feb 4, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In collaboration with the Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center and Puerto Rico Academy of Medical Directors, Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc. (MCN) will launch a two-year initiative to enhance…
Dulce J. López: From Immigrant Hitting Barriers to Bilingual Paralegal Opening Doors for Others

Dulce J. López: From Immigrant Hitting Barriers to Bilingual Paralegal Opening Doors for Others

Jan 30, 2025
By: Sonia Alvarado
Dulce J. López, one of the recipients of this year’s Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award, has made a big impact in her South Carolina farmworker community, despite just a few years on the…
Respiratory Disease is Up! Use Our New Respiratory Disease and Vaccination Info Hubs, Updated Campaign Manual

Respiratory Disease is Up! Use Our New Respiratory Disease and Vaccination Info Hubs, Updated Campaign Manual

Jan 29, 2025
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Hospitalization and outpatient data point to significant influenza activity across the United States. As of mid-January, influenza alone has resulted in 16 million illnesses, 190,000…
Clint Brayfield, MD: Serving the Most Vulnerable, Growing Medical Representation in His Indigenous Community

Clint Brayfield, MD: Serving the Most Vulnerable, Growing Medical Representation in His Indigenous Community

Jan 22, 2025
By: Sonia Alvarado
Clint Brayfield, MD, one of two recipients of this year’s prestigious Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award, is a physician addressing health disparities at the University of New Mexico, in…
Helping Migrant & Immigrant Patients Opt Out of Flu Season with the ‘Risk More. Do Less’ Campaign

Helping Migrant & Immigrant Patients Opt Out of Flu Season with the ‘Risk Less. Do More’ Campaign

Nov 19, 2024
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Flu season is here – but the increased risk of illness includes not just influenza but other respiratory diseases like Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and COVID-19. The US Department of Health…
24th Annual Binational Health Week: Juntos por la prevención

24th Annual Binational Health Week: Juntos por la prevención

Nov 14, 2024
By: Jannette Nuñez
It’s that time of year again, the most wonderful time of the year -- No, I'm not referring to the holidays, but to Binational Health Week! Binational Health Week, a joint initiative between the…