How do we care for and protect vulnerable workers in the midst of COVID-19? It has overwhelmed the world, impacting the life of every worker and their family. While some may have stopped work or continued their work from home to lessen the spread of infection, many migrant and immigrant workers have very little choice but to keep working, increasing their vulnerability. COVID-19 has become a very real occupational health threat that impacts workers, their families and their community. Join MCN for this national webinar where we will respond to many of your questions about COVID-19 and discuss strategies and resources to help workers best protect themselves and their families.
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Presenters
Amy
Liebman
MPA, MA
Chief Program Officer, Workers, Environment and Climate
Migrant Clinicians Network
Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA (she/her) has devoted her career to improving the safety and health of disenfranchised populations. She joined Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) in 1999 and currently serves as the Chief Program Officer: Workers, Environment and Climate. With MCN she has established nationally recognized initiatives to improve the health and safety of immigrant workers and their families. She oversees programs ranging from integrating occupational and environmental medicine into primary care to designing worker safety interventions. She is a national leader in addressing worker safety and environmental justice through the community health worker (CHW) model. She has been a strong advocate for worker health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading programs to improve access to care and culturally contextual education for migrants and immigrants. Prior to her current position, she directed numerous environmental health and justice projects along the US-Mexico Border including an award-winning, community-based hygiene education program that reached thousands of families living without water and sewerage services. She has spearheaded policy efforts within the American Public Health Association to support the protection of agricultural workers and served on the federal advisory committee to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Her programs have won several awards including the 2008 EPA Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award and the 2015 National Safety Council Research Collaboration Award. In 2011, Liebman received the Lorin Kerr Award, an APHA/Occupational Health and Safety Section honor recognizing public health professionals for their dedication and sustained efforts to improve the lives of workers. She is a past Chair of APHA’s Occupational Health and Safety. Liebman has been the principal investigator and project manager of numerous government and privately sponsored projects. She has authored articles, bilingual training manuals and other educational materials dealing with environmental and occupational health and migrants. Liebman has a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Arts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Liebman has traveled throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, and Europe. She is an avid soccer fan and loves to spend time with her husband and two sons. Together they spend a lot of time outdoors.
Edward
Zuroweste
MD
Director médico fundador
Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes
Ed Zuroweste, MD es el director médico fundador de la Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN por sus siglas en inglés). Estuvo presente en la primera reunión oficial de MCN en 1985 y ha estado constantemente involucrado con la organización desde entonces. El Dr. Zuroweste comenzó su trabajo con inmigrantes como socio de un consultorio clínico privado en Chambersburg, Pensilvania. Más tarde se convirtió en el director médico de Keystone Health Center, un gran centro de salud para migrantes y la comunidad en Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Mientras atendía sus responsabilidades administrativas, el Dr. Zuroweste también mantenía un consultorio clínico a tiempo completo de medicina familiar y obstetricia que incluía privilegios hospitalarios completos en pediatría, medicina para adultos y obstetricia. Además de su trabajo en MCN, el Dr. Zuroweste es profesor asistente de medicina en la Facultad de Medicina Johns Hopkins, en la que enseña una clase electiva sobre salud rural internacional en Honduras. El Dr. Zuroweste también es médico de siete clínicas de tuberculosis del departamento de salud de diferentes condados del Departamento de Salud de Pensilvania y, en la actualidad, es asesor médico sobre tuberculosis del Departamento de Salud de Pensilvania. Adicionalmente, el Dr. Zuroweste es asesor clínico de tres empresas de consultoría y, trabaja como médico de familia suplente para múltiples centros. El Dr. Zuroweste ha trabajado para la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en dos misiones de corta duración; la primera en el 2009-2010 como consultor médico especial durante la pandemia de la gripe H1N1 y, en el 2014, como consultor médico especial con el equipo de respuesta contra el ébola en Guinea y Sierra Leona, África Occidental. El Dr. Zuroweste también ha participado en tres programas de detección de TB / Lepra / DM patrocinados por los CDC / OMS dos veces en las Islas Marshall (Ebeye 2017 y Majuro 2018) y más recientemente en la Micronesia en la isla de Chuuk en el 2023. Ha viajado mucho por Centroamérica, especialmente Honduras y Guatemala tanto por razones docentes como por placer. También ha viajado a Europa, Sudamérica y el Caribe. El Dr. Zuroweste está casado y tiene tres hijos. Cuando no está trabajando, al Dr. Zuroweste le gusta correr largas distancias, escuchar buena música, buenas películas y conciertos, trabajar al aire libre y viajar con su familia y amigos a lugares lejanos.