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Five on Friday: UN Human Rights Ruling Could Aid Climate Refugees

Jan 31, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Anniversary, Five on Friday! For the last five years, we at MCN have kept you in the loop on the many useful new resources, pertinent news items, and entertaining podcasts that we have found…
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Update from Puerto Rico: Earthquakes Expose Pre-Existing Needs in Communities

Jan 30, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A truck loaded with supplies donated for those impacted by the earthquakesMarysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, MCN’s Puerto Rico Program Manager, has spent time in recent weeks volunteering to help…
MCN Staff and Board at the 2020 Strategic Planning Meeting in Austin, TX

Migrant Clinicians Network’s 2020 Strategic Meeting: Celebratory, Collaborative, and Renewing

Jan 29, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
MCN Staff and Board at the 2020 Strategic Meeting in Austin, TX Migrant Clinicians Network marked the new year with its annual in-person strategic meeting, during which the Board of Directors and…
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Five on Friday: Gaps in Disaster Relief for Undocumented

Jan 24, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This weekend, the MCN staff is gathering in Austin for our strategic planning meetings. We get a lot done over just a few days -- and, while we leave the meetings exhausted, we renew our spirits…
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX.

A Six-Year-Old Asylum Seeker with Microcephaly and Frequent Seizures Struggles to Get Emergency Care, So Health Network Steps In

Jan 23, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX. A young Guatemalan mother and father and their two young sons crossed the border earlier this…
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Five on Friday: Clinician Burnout Is on the Rise

Jan 17, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
We made it to Friday after another very full week here at Migrant Clinicians Network! Here are this week’s five articles on health topics of interest that we thought you’d enjoy, chosen by MCN…
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Earthquakes in Puerto Rico: Learning from communities and supporting their work

Jan 16, 2020
By: Anonymous
MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana with members of a relief team at a camp in Maricao for those displaced by the earthquakes.By Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MSFor the last 100 years, Puerto Rico, despite…
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Five on Friday: "Public Charge" Rule Blocked

Jan 10, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The “Weekly Win” is the final of our Five on Friday recommended reads that celebrates a victory in health justice. With frequency, we find ourselves hesitating at our “wins”; some appear more…
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Best of the MCN Blog: Most Important Stories of 2019

Jan 9, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy New Year! In 2019, Migrant Clinicians Network published 167 blog posts. Whew! With so many posts, it can be difficult to keep up! As we start a new year, many articles rise to the top,…
A healthcare worker in Puerto Rico sees to a family after a hurricane

Managing Care during Emergencies: Resources for Before, During, and After an Earthquake

Jan 7, 2020
By: Anonymous
Resources Specifically for EarthquakesThere are a number of organizations that provide information on the local and national level in the case of earthquakes. The United States Geological Survey (…
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Five on Friday: Happy New Year!

Jan 3, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy New Year! We are revving up for 2020, and we’re so grateful to have you along the ride with us, working hard for health justice. Here are a few reads that have kept us up to date. Have a…
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Top 5 Reasons I <3 MCN

Dec 26, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Migrant Clinicians Network makes us swoon. That’s because, as an organization, it has taken huge strides in improving the health and well-being of migrants and immigrants in its 35-year history --…
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An Asylum Seeker, Her High-Risk Pregnancy, and Deep Vein Thrombosis: A Health Network Case Study

Dec 21, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Marisa*, a 40-year-old asylum seeker from Central America, was seven months pregnant when she was detained by border patrol. While in custody, she started having difficulty breathing, lower abdomen…
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Five on Friday: Immigrants in the Christmas Tree Industry

Dec 20, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Winter is here at last! This weekend, we finally slip out of fall and into the longest night of the year. As the cold, dark days unfold, we turn to issues of environmental and migrant health that…
Amy Liebman, MPA, MA, Director, Environmental and Occupational Health

Amy Liebman, Motivated Champion of Environmental and Worker Health Justice

Dec 19, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“I don’t know where it came from. I just have a very strong sense of justice,” declared Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health for Migrant Clinicians Network.…
Going Platinum: Migrant Clinicians Network Earns GuideStar’s Highest Seal of Transparency

Going Platinum: Migrant Clinicians Network Earns GuideStar’s Highest Seal of Transparency

Dec 18, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This month, Migrant Clinicians Network earned a 2019 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest and most trusted source of nonprofit…
Deliana Garcia, MA, Director, International Projects and Emerging Issues

Deliana Garcia: Intrepid Champion for Health Justice

Dec 17, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Deliana Garcia has been a relentless and intrepid champion for health justice with Migrant Clinicians Network for over three decades. Known for her determination, she has dedicated her career to…
Doctors protest border official decision to deny vaccinations to migrants in detention

Five on Friday: Detained Migrants Denied Vaccinations

Dec 13, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
We made it to Friday after another very full week here at Migrant Clinicians Network! Here are this week’s five articles on health topics of interest that we thought you’d enjoy, chosen by MCN…
Dr. Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly and Dr. Robert Shelly

MCN Welcomes Dr. Franyuti and Dr. Shelly to Board of Directors

Dec 11, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Earlier this year, Migrant Clinicians Network welcomed two new board members to our clinician-driven Board of Directors: Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly, MD, and Robert Shelly, MD, FAAP. Dr.…
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Helping the Helpers: Tools for Trauma and Self-Care in the Wake of the Camp Fire

Dec 9, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
a worker helping Camp Fire survivors, what pitfalls do you think are pertinent? In contrast, what ways can maximize effectiveness in the field?” This question, asked by a participant during…
A woman has her blood pressure taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

Five on Friday: Health Centers Respond to Natural Disasters

Dec 6, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
As the holidays ramp up, our free time gets sucked away. Here, we’ve collected five health justice pieces that MCN staff read this week, in case you missed some of the stories that matter. What…
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Knowledge is Power: Reaching Farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with Environmental Health Education

Dec 5, 2019
By: Jordana Oman
Farmworker parents after participating in an environmental health and safety talk with a community health worker.By Kate Kruse, Project Coordinator, Migrant Clinicians NetworkPrior to living and…
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Gratitude In Action: Why I’m Donating to MCN

Dec 3, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last Thursday, before diving into our steaming plates of vegetable sides and stuffing, my family went around the table to say aloud a few things for which we’re grateful. It’s remarkable how,…
Saul Delgado, Health Network Database Specialist

Saul Delgado: From a Childhood in Cuba, to Health Network Database Specialist

Dec 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Saul Delgado’s childhood summers were spent climbing mango trees with his cousins in his grandmother’s backyard in San Juan y Martinez, a tobacco-growing region in the western Cuban countryside.…
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Five on Friday: Celebrating Buy Nothing Day

Nov 29, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It’s Black Friday -- or, for many of us, it’s Buy Nothing Day! Today, I have the day off, and I’m working hard to eschew the post-holiday over-consumption impulse. Instead, I might spend the day…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian Border

Dr. Madaras: A Refugee’s First Thanksgiving

Nov 27, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian border while traveling in 2019. Fifty years ago, after a year living as refugees, the family of Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, finally arrived in Bangor, Maine…