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FAQ: COVID-19 and Migrant, Immigrant, and Food & Farm Worker Patients

FAQ: COVID-19 and Migrant, Immigrant, and Food & Farm Worker Patients

Jun 29, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Table of Contents The Latest Questions Exposure Quarantine and Isolation Prevention Variants Boosters COVID-19 Diagnosis and Care Long COVID Migration,…
A Tour of a Detention Center, A Taste of My Own Freedom and Privilege

A Tour of a Detention Center, A Taste of My Own Freedom and Privilege

Jun 27, 2022
By:

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…
Supreme Court Abortion Decision Violates Women’s Fundamental Health Rights and Increases Inequities

Supreme Court Abortion Decision Violates Women’s Fundamental Health Rights and Increases Inequities

Jun 24, 2022
By: 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…
Migrant Clinicians Network Steps Up Language Access; Launches New Website

Migrant Clinicians Network Steps Up Language Access; Launches New Website

Jun 21, 2022
By:

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…
Environmental Stewardship: Developing Young Conservation & Emergency Management Community Leaders at School

Environmental Stewardship: Developing Young Conservation & Emergency Management Community Leaders at School

Jun 9, 2022
By:

Myrellis

Muñiz-Márquez

(Community impact by students from the Jose Emilio Lugo School at Adjuntas) [Editor’s Note: June 1st marked the beginning of hurricane season. In Puerto Rico, Migrant Clinicians Network engages…
Transformation & Growth: A Message from MCN’s CEO

Transformation & Growth: A Message from MCN’s CEO

May 31, 2022
By:

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…
A worker processes poultry

The Trauma of Avian Flu: What Workers Need

May 17, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Avian flu is back, and it’s killing millions of chickens and turkeys across the Midwest and East Coast. In the short time that the H5N1 strain of avian flu has been spreading, over 37 million…
Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

May 11, 2022
By: MCN Admin
  Their stories are harrowing. The murder of children, and death threats at home. No work, no crops, no food. Unavoidable violence and a feeling that the only way to get to safety is to flee home.…
Peletah Ministries members gathered

Partner Spotlight: Peletah Ministries

May 5, 2022
By: MCN Admin
  [Editor’s Note: In 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members mobilized 221 community health outreach…
Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCN’s Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCN’s Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Apr 15, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Paulina Segovia, PA, RDN, is only in her second year as a physician’s assistant at Tepeyac Community Health Center in Denver, CO – but she is already making a significant impact on her community.…
Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Apr 7, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

A new paper describing health care worker COVID-19 vaccine confidence and acceptance shows that clinicians who work with immigrant communities were more vaccine acceptant. In Healthcare worker…
Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Apr 6, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Following years of disinvestment in US public health and social services, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the mounting systemic racial inequity, poverty, and unequal access to…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras provides a check-up to a child held by their parent

Celebrating the Value of Underrepresented Voices: MacKenzie Scott Announces MCN Gift

Mar 24, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Dr. Laszlo Madaras, Chief Medical Officer at MCN, meets with migrants at a shelter in McAllen, Texas. At Migrant Clinicians Network, we have dedicated our lives to raising up the voices of migrants…
Midwife Annie checks on a mother's health

Annie Leone, CNM: A Dedication to Pregnant Asylum Seekers at the Border

Mar 21, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Annie Leone, CNM, provides a check-up to a pregnant asylum seeker. A pregnant asylum seeker, recently released from detention, is due any day but has been separated from her partner, who was…
People pushing a van out of a rut

I’m in a Rut. What Can I do About It?

Mar 17, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

[Editor’s Note: Every month, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, shares stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these ongoing…
Attendees at the Photovoice Exhibit

Women’s Voices Matter. MCN’s Photovoice Project Is Dedicated to Them.

Mar 8, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

Today is International Women's Day. Across the world, numerous countries will recognize the contributions of women across cultural, economic, political, and social spheres. The roots of this…
Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019.

In Memoriam: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Feb 22, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

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…
Farmers installing irrigation equipment in the dark

Overtime Pay: Why Are Farmworkers Excluded?

Feb 10, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

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…
Partner Spotlight: Lideres Campesinas of California

Partner Spotlight: Lideres Campesinas of California

Feb 3, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

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

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

Jan 26, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

[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…
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
By:

MCN

Staff

[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…
Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

Jan 13, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

  [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…
Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Jan 4, 2022
By:

MCN

Staff

[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…
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Hope and Celebration: Top Six MCN Blogs of 2021

Dec 29, 2021
By:

MCN

Staff

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
By:

MCN

Staff

  [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…
Remembering Don Villarejo

Remembering Don Villarejo

Dec 22, 2021
By:

MCN

Staff

Last month, researcher, professor, and farmworker health advocate Don Villarejo passed away. Villarejo was a founder of the California Institute for Rural Studies, an important nonprofit research…