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US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

Jul 12, 2022
By: 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…
Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras (revisited)

Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras (revisited)

Jul 11, 2022
By: 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…
Five on Friday: U.S. Pharmacists Can Now Prescribe Pfizer’s Covid Pill

Five on Friday: U.S. Pharmacists Can Now Prescribe Pfizer’s Covid Pill

Jul 8, 2022
By: 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…
Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Jul 1, 2022
By: 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…
Five on Friday: Ending the 'Remain in Mexico' Program

Five on Friday: Ending the 'Remain in Mexico' Program

Jul 1, 2022
By: 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,…
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…
Five on Friday: Climate Change Is a Public Health Crisis

Five on Friday: Climate Change Is a Public Health Crisis

Jun 24, 2022
By: 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…
Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Jun 23, 2022
By: 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…
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…
Five on Friday: World Refugee Day 2022

Five on Friday: World Refugee Day 2022

Jun 17, 2022
By: 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…
Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Jun 14, 2022
By: 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,…
Five on Friday: Only Weekly Wins!

Five on Friday: Only Weekly Wins!

Jun 10, 2022
By: 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…
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) Hurricane María is regularly referenced, five years after its terrible arrival in Puerto Rico. That’s because the…
Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Jun 8, 2022
By: 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…
Mass Shootings: From Grief and Outrage to Activism and Action

Mass Shootings: From Grief and Outrage to Activism and Action

Jun 6, 2022
By: 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…
Five on Friday: Our Recovery From COVID

Five on Friday: Our Recovery From COVID

Jun 3, 2022
By: 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…
Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Prepare for Future Emergencies

Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Preparing for Future Emergencies

Jun 2, 2022
By: 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…
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…
Five on Friday: Shelters Manage Increased Border Crossings

Five on Friday: Shelters Manage Increased Border Crossings

May 27, 2022
By: 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.…
Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

May 26, 2022
By: 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…
Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

May 25, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Yesterday’s tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas has left most people heartbroken. The shooting was the 27th school shooting so far in the 19 weeks of 2022; there have been at least 212 other mass…
A clinician checks the blood pressure of a patient

Long COVID and Historically Marginalized Patients: Amplified Risks Require a Different Approach

May 25, 2022
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Despite over two years of data on COVID-19, it remains unclear what percentage of people who contract COVID-19 develop symptoms of long COVID in the weeks or months after their acute illness.…
We Do Hope: New Uplifting Podcast Miniseries from Witness to Witness

We Do Hope: New Uplifting Podcast Miniseries from Witness to Witness

May 21, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
We are proud to announce the premiere of We Do Hope, a six-episode podcast series hosted by Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, the founder and director of the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program and Pamela…
Five on Friday: Masks at School Reduce Secondary Transmission

Five on Friday: Masks at School Reduce Secondary Transmission

May 20, 2022
By: MCN Admin
It's Friday! Time for our weekly rundown of MCN staff picks of migrant health news and health justice efforts. Pollution is deadly. A new analysis, reported by ABC News and forwarded on by…
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…