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¡Wepa!: Shining the Spotlight on MCN Staff Superstars for International Women's Day

¡Wepa!: Shining the Spotlight on MCN Staff Superstars for International Women's Day

Mar 8, 2023
By: Ashley-Michelle Papon
¡Wepa! The virtual halls of MCN are ringing with the celebratory word, common in Puerto Rico, and regularly used here at MCN to celebrate our accomplishments. With today being International Women's…
Trainings on COVID, Again? How MCN’s Engaging, Useful Learning Collaborative Breaks Free of the COVID Learning Burnout

Trainings on COVID, Again? How MCN’s Engaging, Useful Learning Collaborative Breaks Free of the COVID Learning Burnout

Feb 28, 2023
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
When Migrant Clinicians Network proposed to run a four-part learning collaborative for the promotores at Ventanillas de Salud (VdS) across the country, even the National Coordinator of the VdS,…
New Resource: Manual on Designing Community-Based Communication Campaigns, in English & Spanish

New Resource: Manual on Designing Community-Based Communication Campaigns, in English & Spanish

Feb 16, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
COVID pandemic funding is winding down across the country, but pandemic-era communication troubles remain. Trust in public health authorities has stayed low; health misinformation continues to…
COVID Emergency Declarations Are Ending. What Happens to Migrant & Immigrant Health and Health Access?

COVID Emergency Declarations Are Ending. What Happens to Migrant & Immigrant Health and Health Access?

Feb 6, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the end of January, the Biden Administration announced that federal emergency declarations around COVID-19 will expire on May 11, 2023. The emergency declarations paved the way for numerous…
Hui Hoaka: One Health Center’s Response to COVID Reduces Food Insecurity, Build Community

Hui Hoaka: One Health Center’s Response to COVID Reduces Food Insecurity, Build Community

Feb 2, 2023
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Hui Hoaka Wins SDOH Academy’s Innovation Showcase First Prize In early 2022, the SDOH Academy launched its very first competition for health centers, asking them to highlight…
Some Tips to Handle Watching or Listening to Disturbing Material

Some Tips to Handle Watching or Listening to Disturbing Material

Jan 28, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
We are all very often in the position of witnessing terrible events. Sometimes we have control of whether we listen or watch something disturbing, and sometimes witnessing is thrust upon us. In…
Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Jan 24, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Yesterday, a farmworker allegedly opened fire on his coworkers in the greenhouses and farmworker housing of a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, a small coastal town not far from San Francisco,…
Then and Now: COVID Exacerbated Health Inequities, But Also Built Opportunities for Ongoing, Trusted, Culturally Contextual Public Health Responses

Then and Now: COVID Exacerbated Health Inequities, But Also Built Opportunities for Ongoing, Trusted, Culturally Contextual Public Health Responses

Jan 19, 2023
By: Amy Liebman
Migrant Clinicians Network is a national nonprofit dedicated to health justice. We have two primary audiences: the frontline clinicians who serve immigrants, and the immigrant and migrant…
Health Justice in 2023: After Being Treated “Less Than Human,” A Teenage Boy Comes Back from the Brink of Death

Health Justice in 2023: After Being Treated “Less Than Human,” A Teenage Boy Comes Back from the Brink of Death

Jan 18, 2023
By: Laszlo Madaras
When the emergency department received 16-year-old Jorge,* he was unresponsive and intubated. He was found among many dead migrants in the back of a truck in extreme heat, at the US-Mexico border…
Start Prescribing Paxlovid, Please! Immigrants & Migrants Need Access.

Start Prescribing Paxlovid, Please! Immigrants & Migrants Need Access.

Jan 11, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Paxlovid, the highly effective treatment against COVID infection, is underprescribed in the US, particularly for the underserved. For example, Hispanic populations were 30% less likely to be…
Take Down the Old and Ring In the New

Take Down the Old and Ring in the New

Jan 5, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
For many people, the winter holidays are a time when they put up special decorations – like a tree adorned with lights, sparkly tinsel, and ornaments; or lighted manger scenes on their mantels or…
Pediatric Care on the Border: Caring for Kids in Custody with Dr. Ayoub-Rodriguez

Pediatric Care on the Border: Caring for Kids in Custody with Dr. Ayoub-Rodriguez

Dec 19, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
When children in immigration detention get sick, where do they get help? United States Customs and Border Protection, (CBP, commonly known as the border patrol), does not have the facilities to…
The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

Nov 23, 2022
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In rural upstate New York, a farmworker heads to the nearby primary care clinic. After check-in, a medical assistant helps him log in with his psychiatrist in the exam room. While the clinic can’…
Despite Legal Status, Pregnant Asylum Seekers Can’t Get Prenatal Care in our Overextended Health System

Despite Legal Status, Pregnant Asylum Seekers Can’t Get Prenatal Care in our Overextended Health System

Nov 15, 2022
By: Deliana Garcia
In late October, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report detailing dangerous gaps in rural U.S. obstetric care: over half of rural counties do not have a hospital…
Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Nov 8, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Roxana Pineda, Karen Mountain and Jimena De Leija In Austin, Texas, November 3, 2022 was officially declared Roxana Pineda Day, named after Migrant Clinicians Network’s longtime Ventanilla de…
Enedelia Basurto: Raised in a Migrant Family, Now Advocating for Migrants’ Health Needs with Health Network

Enedelia Basurto: Raised in a Migrant Family, Now Advocating for Migrants’ Health Needs with Health Network

Nov 2, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Enedelia (Center left) with the MCN team at an immigration center in McAllen, Texas. “Ene is a very caring person. If I need help or have a question about a patient, she will quickly reply or…
Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Oct 27, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Across the United States, the Ventanillas de Salud (VdS) offices within the Mexican Consulates have been celebrating Binational Health Month, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the US to…
Candace Kugel: Celebrating A Migrant Clinician’s Retirement from MCN

Candace Kugel: Celebrating A Migrant Clinician’s Retirement from MCN

Oct 25, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
From villages in the mountains of Honduras to the apple-picking region of Pennsylvania to the halls of Migrant Clinicians Network’s main office in Austin, Texas, Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS has…
MCN White Paper: Pregnant Asylum Seekers Struggle to Access Prenatal Care

MCN White Paper: Pregnant Asylum Seekers Struggle to Access Prenatal Care

Oct 18, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Today, Migrant Clinicians Network released a new white paper, “Failures of US Health Care System for Pregnant Asylum Seekers.” This nine-page report outlines how pregnant asylum seekers who have…
New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

Oct 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians focused on migrant, immigrant, and other underserved patients must balance personal and professional stressors for their entire careers – but the pandemic added new weight and complexity…
COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

Oct 6, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
Over the pandemic, despite numerous precautions, many MCN staff members have wrestled with COVID, myself included. Over the summer, as BA.5 became the predominant variant, several of us came down…
Ventanilla de Salud Health Fair Brings Essential Services & Screenings to Austin

Ventanilla de Salud Health Fair Brings Essential Services & Screenings to Austin

Sep 21, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, 20 Austin-area children had an incredibly good day. Thanks to a generous donation from the US Hispanic Contractors Association (USHCA), these lucky children won brand new bicycles,…
Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Sep 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Nestled between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is the Delmarva peninsula, consisting of the state of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. Delmarva is home to diverse agricultural…
An El Paso Project Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers to Learn about Health & Safety

VdS El Paso Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers on Health & Safety

Aug 24, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When at the end of 2021, Leslie Martínez, then National Coordinator of the Ventanillas de Salud, called to ask if I was interested in participating in a Worker Health and Safety Capacity…
The Latest in Suicide Prevention: Resources, Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and a New Stage Theory

The Latest in Suicide Prevention: Resources, Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and a New Stage Theory

Aug 18, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
It is a sign of significant progress that we now have a dedicated number to call in case of mental health crises. People experiencing a mental health crisis can call or text the numbers 9-8-8.…
Charlas entre mujeres: Building Connection, Conveying Trusted Health Information to Latinas

Charlas entre mujeres: Building Connection, Conveying Trusted Health Information to Latinas

Aug 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Thousands of Mexican nationals living in the United States head to their local Mexican Consulate for administrative support every year. Taking advantage of this, the Mexican government has…