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Overtime Pay: Why Are Farmworkers Excluded?
Feb 10, 2022
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the New York State Wage Board passed three resolutions that will finally provide overtime for farmworkers working for more than 40 hours a week. The resolutions also delineate a ten-year…
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Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard
Sep 15, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Heat stress kills food and farmworkers – and every heat-related illness that these workers experience can be prevented. Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) is drafting a much-needed…
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Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health
Sep 7, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2020, America got a close-up look at the exploitative conditions, lack of basic occupational protections, poor access to health care, and institutional oppression that food and farm workers have…
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Position Statement: Mask Guidance Leaves Some Workers Vulnerable to Infection
May 26, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their mask guidance to allow fully vaccinated individuals to resume most indoor and outdoor activities without wearing masks…
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Long Path to Nationwide Ban: Chlorpyrifos and Farmworker Health
May 5, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, after years of effort from environmental health and farmworker advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to essentially ban…
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Workers Memorial Day: COVID-19 Lifts Veil on Workplace Hazards
Apr 28, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Fifty years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect. The act aimed to protect workers from injury and illness related to their work. It created the Occupational Safety…
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Earth Day: Environmental Racism Persists with Antibiotic Usage in Agriculture
Apr 22, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
In the citrus groves in Florida and California, farmworkers are at risk of exposure to sprayed antibiotics – with unknown health consequences to these overlooked, under-protected, yet highly…
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EPA Weakens Pesticide Standards; Endangers Health of Rural Communities
Nov 5, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled back a critical safeguard for farmworker health: the application exclusion zone, or AEZ. The AEZ is an important part of the Worker…
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Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle
Oct 13, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Photo: United Farm Workers For almost two months, wildfires have suffocated the Northern California sky. A dry mid-August lightning storm ignited thousands of fires, many of which grew rapidly in…
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Essential: Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke in California – and Health Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 – With Respirators
Aug 27, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
This week, as fires burned across California, blackening skies and raining ash on ripe crops, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CalOSHA) reminded employers of the…
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Amy Liebman, Motivated Champion of Environmental and Worker Health Justice
Dec 19, 2019
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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.…
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Knowledge is Power: Reaching Farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with Environmental Health Education
Dec 5, 2019
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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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In the Field: Training CHW Parents to Protect Kids from Environmental Exposures
Aug 26, 2019
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Jordana Oman
When Gloria came to work in the United States, lead poisoning was a hazard she had never even heard of, much less encountered in her day-to-day life. Known as the “invisible villain,” lead is a hard…
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Antibiotics in Orange Groves: Resistance for the Masses, Unknown Health Consequences for the Farmworkers
Jul 2, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
In May, the New York Times ran an article on the recent and significant increase in the use of antibiotics on orange groves in Florida to combat citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection…
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In The Field: Occupational Health in Calexico with Ventanilla de Salud of the Mexican Consulate
Jun 10, 2019
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Alma Galván
As part of “Filling the Gap in Worker Training: Capacity Building for Occupational Safety and Health,” supported by the Susan Harwood Capacity Building Program of the Occupational Safety and Health…
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Diabetes, Disasters, Late Night Outreach: The Life of a Migrant & Neighborhood Health Nurse in North Carolina
Jun 5, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
“It’s very, very busy this time a year.” That’s the update from Gena Byrd, RN, a nurse with Greene County Health Care, a community health center in North Carolina. One of the true migrant health…
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Year in Review: Protecting Farmworker Children from Environmental Contaminants
May 20, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
After an incredibly successful first year, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) and our partner, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP) are ready and excited to kick off the second year of our…
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In the Field: MCN Hosts Training of Trainers with Ventanillas de Salud in North Carolina and California
Apr 9, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Every day, millions of workers face potentially life-threatening risks from hazards such as chemicals, machinery, ladders, and temperature extremes. For immigrant workers, challenges including…
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New US Senate Bill Matches State Bills Seeking to Ban Chlorpyrifos
Mar 28, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
By Sofia Carrasco Earlier today, Senator Tom Udall introduced legislation that would ban chlorpyrifos across the nation. The bill, entitled Protect Children, Families and Farmworkers from Nerve…
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Recognizing One of Our Own - Seguridad en las Lecherías: Immigrant Dairy Worker Health and Safety
Mar 19, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The Health…
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MCN Stands Up for a Ban on Chlorpyrifos in Maryland
Feb 14, 2019
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Migrant Clinicians Network
By Sofia Carrasco Yesterday, Migrant Clinicians Network’s own Amy K. Liebman testified in front of Maryland’s House Environment and Transportation Committee in support of HB 275 for a Maryland-…
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Climate Change: New England Journal of Medicine Asks Clinicians to Act
Jan 24, 2019
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Do clinicians have a role in addressing climate change? This week’s New England Journal of Medicine features an explosive perspective piece calling on clinicians to lead the fight. In “Climate…
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Celebrate Children's Health Month by Empowering Farmworker Parents to Protect their Childrens' Health
Oct 15, 2018
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Claire Hutkins Seda
Every day, children are accosted with a barrage of parental nags, primarily aimed at keeping children safe and healthy: look both ways; tie your shoe; don’t talk to strangers; eat your…
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Post-Florence: Hog Waste Contaminates the Floodwaters, and Disaster Expert Chip Hughes Looks Ahead to Clean-up
Sep 27, 2018
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Claire Hutkins Seda
(Photo by: Sandy Millar) During Hurricane Florence, Joseph “Chip” Hughes, Jr., MPH, was with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 120 miles from the coast. But his university town, one that…
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In the Field: Training Parents as Community Health Workers to Protect Children from Environmental Hazards
Sep 12, 2018
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Migrant Clinicians Network
The downpours over the weekend ahead of Hurricane Florence did not dampen the spirits of the 14 farmworker parents participating in MCN’s Community Health Worker (CHWs) training in collaboration with…
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In the Field: Jayuya Outreach Workers Provide Chemical Safety
Aug 20, 2018
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Migrant Clinicians Network
With the commitment to promote a safe and healthy work environment, the Castañer Polyclinic in Jayuya, Puerto Rico is raising awareness among many different groups of workers about the proper use of…
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