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Five on Friday: Protecting Child Farmworkers
Jul 22, 2022
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MCN Admin
Friday is here again! Time to peek into the inboxes of MCN staff and pull out five pieces on migrant and immigrant health that may be of interest to you. Wondering about Novavax? TL;DR -- “…
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Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want
Jul 21, 2022
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Kaethe Weingarten
I’m 75 years old and I cannot remember a period of time as packed with big changes out in the world I live in as those of the past seven years. The gut-wrenching, nerve-wracking, upsetting,…
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Climate Action to Meet the Crisis: MCN Update from the US Virgin Islands
Jul 19, 2022
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Marysel Pagán Santana
Sometimes the rain is a blessing, and sometimes it’s a curse. Last week, I arrived with Migrant Clinicians Network’s Deliana Garcia at a farmer’s market in St. Croix, the largest island of the US…
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Five on Friday: Health Literacy in the United States
Jul 15, 2022
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MCN Admin
Ahh, Friday – the sweet tendrils of a warm summer weekend already drawing us out the door. Before you give in to its pull, we recommend reading Five on Friday, our weekly rundown of migrant and…
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Monkeypox: Your Questions Answered
Jul 13, 2022
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Laszlo Madaras
Despite low transmission in the US, monkeypox has dominated recent health news. As of July 9, 2022, 767 cases have been confirmed in the US. Cases have been reported across Europe as well – but…
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US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access
Jul 12, 2022
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MCN Admin
Two weeks ago, 53 people lost their lives to excessive and grueling heat exposure when their smuggler abandoned the semitruck in which they were traveling in the heat in San Antonio. This…
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Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras (revisited)
Jul 11, 2022
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Laszlo Madaras
Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to assist the surgeon with an 11-year-old girl who was in an automobile accident and…
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Five on Friday: U.S. Pharmacists Can Now Prescribe Pfizer’s Covid Pill
Jul 8, 2022
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MCN Admin
Here's our weekly Five on Friday, with five pieces of news and analysis shared among MCN staff that you may have missed, including a double Weekly Win, because we all need some good news right now…
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Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate
Jul 1, 2022
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did not permit health care providers to pre-order COVID vaccines for children between the ages of six months and four years. Last week, however, the state…
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Five on Friday: Ending the 'Remain in Mexico' Program
Jul 1, 2022
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MCN Admin
Friday has arrived! MCN's Five on Friday gives you a manageable dose of migrant and immigrant health news – just enough to stay up to date with new insights and news pieces you may have missed,…
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A Tour of a Detention Center, A Taste of My Own Freedom and Privilege
Jun 27, 2022
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Karen Mountain
( People in line at the processing facility in Donna, Texas) It’s 8:30 AM on June 10th in flat, brown Laredo, Texas. It’s already hot and headed toward scorching as 20 of us lined and masked up in…
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Supreme Court Abortion Decision Violates Women’s Fundamental Health Rights and Increases Inequities
Jun 24, 2022
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MCN Admin
Today’s Supreme Court decision Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will restrict women’s access to abortion, a procedure that the United Nations Human Rights Committee recognizes as a…
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Five on Friday: Climate Change Is a Public Health Crisis
Jun 24, 2022
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MCN Admin
It's the first official weekend of summer! Why not grab an iced tea, slather on the sunblock, and dive into Five on Friday? Here are the top five news and insights shared by MCN staff this week to…
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Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving
Jun 23, 2022
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Kaethe Weingarten
When I was a freshman in college, the father of a friend with whom I had gone to elementary school died. My mother wrote me a letter – parents wrote letters to their children when they lived away…
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Migrant Clinicians Network Steps Up Language Access; Launches New Website
Jun 21, 2022
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Robert Kinnaird
Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) has long worked to make health care services and educational materials more accessible for the Latinx community, however, we still have a lot of work to do to reach…
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Five on Friday: World Refugee Day 2022
Jun 17, 2022
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MCN Admin
This Monday we are recognizing World Refugee Day. For this week’s Five on Friday, we are taking the chance to contemplate where we can better address the needs of refugees and asylum seekers and…
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Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.
Jun 14, 2022
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MCN Admin
The Black Belt is a region of the southeast US that is defined socially, economically, and geographically by the expanse of highly fertile black soil. Following the abolition of chattel slavery,…
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Five on Friday: Only Weekly Wins!
Jun 10, 2022
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MCN Admin
It's rough out there! Time for a special edition of Five on Friday: Only Weekly Wins! Instead of just one dose of good news, we've gathered five pieces to lift your spirits, all recommended by MCN…
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Environmental Stewardship: Developing Young Conservation & Emergency Management Community Leaders at School
Jun 9, 2022
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Myrellis Muñiz Márquez
(Community impact by students from the Jose Emilio Lugo School at Adjuntas) Hurricane María is regularly referenced, five years after its terrible arrival in Puerto Rico. That’s because the…
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Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being
Jun 8, 2022
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Robert Kinnaird
What does it mean to “do hope?” What if hope were a verb, not a noun? We Do Hope, a six-episode podcast that releases its final installment today, embraces that idea. Hope is not just something you…
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Mass Shootings: From Grief and Outrage to Activism and Action
Jun 6, 2022
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Kaethe Weingarten
May we not just grieve, but give: May we not just ache, but act; Amanda Gorman, “Hymn for the Hurting” On May 14th and 28th, two eighteen-year-old males massacred 31 people and injured many…
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Five on Friday: Our Recovery From COVID
Jun 3, 2022
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MCN Admin
...And June has arrived! Pull up a lounge chair, put some ice cubes in your tea – and read Five on Friday, our weekly rundown of articles offered by MCN staff to keep us updated on the goings-on in…
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Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Preparing for Future Emergencies
Jun 2, 2022
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Myrellis Muñiz Márquez
In August 2020, only five months after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Puerto Rico, the first pandemic school-year calendar was published. It left out one of the most important items all…
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Transformation & Growth: A Message from MCN’s CEO
May 31, 2022
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Karen Mountain
By Karen Mountain, MBA, MSN, RN, Chief Executive Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network This year, 2022, is a year of transformation for Migrant Clinicians Network -- and for me. MCN has grown…
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Five on Friday: Shelters Manage Increased Border Crossings
May 27, 2022
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MCN Admin
Five on Friday time again! Let’s wrap up the work week with five articles from MCN staff, including one Weekly Win, to keep us updated on migrant health news and health justice efforts.…
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Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring
May 26, 2022
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Kaethe Weingarten
The impact of the pandemic on so many people in so many different communities has been immense. I wrote about grief in a blog in May 2021 and, a year later, the need to attend to the subject…
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