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MNC Tammy Blackman

Radiologic Approach | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

As we close out our Anniversary month by highlighting our last clinician from 30 Clinicians Making a Difference, we reflect back on our family of clinicians to ask: What motivated them to start…

MNC Rebecca Bixby

Engagement | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

An exciting aspect of our 30 Clinicians Making a Difference project was watching the local communities of our clinicians celebrate the honor through newsletter announcements, links on health…

MNC Marsha Griffin

It’s Every Child | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

One month ago, the New Yorker aimed its bright light on kidnappings of immigrant children at the US/Mexico border. The fourteen-page article centered around Rio Grande City, where undocumented…

MNC Salvador Sandoval

Serving the Community | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Earlier this month, Dr. Ed Zuroweste, MCN’s Medical Director, gave a talk about Health Network’s TB Net -- the portion of our bridge case management system that focuses on patients with…

MNC Barb Boehler

Delivering Babies… And Much More | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

This month, Barb Boehler, CNM, will make her big screen debut, as one of the midwives featured on the new movie The Mama Sherpas. (Boehler is visible for a split second in the movie’s trailer, too…

MNC Wilson Augustave

Lifetime of Migrant Farmworker Experience | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Agricultural workers in the Finger Lakes region are lucky. They have Wilson Augustave on their side. The Senior HIV Case Manager at Finger Lakes Community Health in New York has crossed state…

MNC Kathy Brieger

Care in the Black Dirt Region | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

In the last few weeks, onion sets have begun to be plugged into the black dirt of Orange County, NY. The extremely fertile Black Dirt region just an hour from New York City is famous for its…

MNC Matt Keifer

Protecting Vulnerable Workers | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Earlier this year, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) marked its tenth anniversary, and launched its plans for the next six years. The initiative, launched by former President George W. Bush…

MNC Mary Englerth

Mobile Care Successes and Struggles | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Human trafficking has been in the news this week, as Congress and the Obama Administration spar on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an international trade pact that will increase trade between the…

MNC Sandra Young

Mixteco Project in Oxnard | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

In Oxnard, California, big berry farms recently tested out a 14-arm mechanical strawberry picker, which the inventor claims is necessary because, according to the Wall Street Journal article,…

MNC Miguel Escobedo

Controlling Tuberculosis at the Border | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

In February, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh claimed that children crossing the US-Mexico border were to blame for the measles outbreak at Disneyland. The thousands of…

MNC Yurany Ninco Sanchez

Empowering Dairy Workers | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Today, Migrant Clinicians Network, the National Farm Medicine Center, and five other partners received an award from the National Safety Council for their collaborative efforts in developing and…

MNC Melissa Bailey

Children in the Fields | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Children don’t belong on tobacco fields. Do you agree? Six years ago, Melissa Bailey discovered that many young children in her community are exposed to nicotine, pesticides, and extreme heat…

MNC Marie-Jose Francois

Balance Between Clinical and Non-clinical Settings | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

It comes as no surprise that one of our 30 Clinicians Making a Difference, Marie-Jose Francois, is based in Florida. After all, the Sunshine State hosts tens of thousands of migratory and seasonal…

MNC Eva Galvez

Working with Seasonal Farmworkers in Oregon | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

This week, the Spring issue of Streamline was published. Arriving in the mailboxes of thousands of subscribers was the image of Eva Galvez, MD, attending to a young patient in her exam room at…

MNC Sue Hagie

Up to the Challenges | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Earlier this week, MCN’s Specialist on Child and Migration Health and Bioethics, Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH, MA, visited Choptank Health Center in Maryland, where she and a team were conducting an…

MNC Vonnie Brown

Bringing Health Justice by Reframing Beliefs | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

For agricultural workers, the end of May is the beginning -- crops are in the ground, and the busy growing season is ahead. For university students, however, May is an ending; it’s a time to…

MNC Eileen Eager

Health Justice as Charity | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

This year, MCN celebrates its 30th anniversary, but just two years ago, our friends at Seton Center had their own 30th year in serving their migrant community in Princess Anne, Maryland. Sister…

MNC Charita Olabiyi

Everybody Smiles in the Same Language | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

This Friday is the meeting of the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Advisory Council, organized by Westside Family Healthcare in Delaware. The council serves as a “common ground for direct service…

MNC Erika Peterson

Building Trust | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Two weeks ago, Health Network Manager Ricardo Garay left MCN’s Austin, Texas headquarters and headed to Eastern Shore Rural Health Systems, Inc., in Virginia, to present to clinicians on the ‘why…

MNC Jesus Reyna

Compassionate Care Across the World | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Our profile of LT Jesus Reyna, RN, for 30 Clinicians Making a Difference is a bit different than the others. When he was selected for the honor, Lieutenant Reyna was in West Africa as a…

MNC Megan Danielson

Delivering New Life and Hopeful Beginnings | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Tuesday was the annual International Day of the Midwife -- but this year seems... different, because midwifery seems more prominent in media than ever. Just last month, the royal couple delivered…

MNC Hilton Perez

A Bridge Between Two Worlds | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

On the north end of the Central Valley lies the mid-size college town of Chico, which is famous for its incredibly rich soils and for the acres and acres of almonds, walnuts, fruit trees, and…

MNC Julio Garay

Tuberculosis in El Salvador | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Although Migrant Clinicians Network works closely with clinicians within the US, much of our work at Health Network is done with our international counterparts. Health Network, MCN’s bridge case…

MNC John McFarland

Dental Health | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Aníbal Yariel López Correa

Under that low-key and smiling exterior is a man driven by a single desire to change access to dental care for everyone. In the almost 30 years that I have known John McFarland, he has never…

MNC Jose Rodriguez

More than Teeth | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

Today is the opening day of the National Farmworkers Health Conference in El Paso, Texas. Migrant Clinicians Network will be celebrating its 30th anniversary through an informational display in the…

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