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Pursuing the Goal: A Health Justice Perspective on Soccer

Pursuing the Goal: A Health Justice Perspective on Soccer

Dec 13, 2022
By: Amy Liebman
Gooooal! The excitement of the World Cup echoes across the globe as soccer players from 32 countries compete to win the most coveted title in soccer. Taking place every four years, billions of…
Pesticides and Racism: From Manufacturing, to Delivery, to Application. Here's how to fix it.

Pesticides and Racism: From Manufacturing, to Delivery, to Application. Here's how to fix it.

Nov 16, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Follow the life of pesticides, and you will find structural racism at every step. From manufacturing to usage, the health of people of color and people with low income are disproportionately at…
Maryland Needs Basic, Common-Sense Heat Standard – Not What Has Been Proposed

Maryland Needs Basic, Common-Sense Heat Standard – Not What Has Been Proposed

Nov 3, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Every summer that farmworkers toil in the fields is the coolest summer they’ll ever experience. The world is warming at a dangerous pace, and farm work is becoming deadlier as a result. Strong…
Breaking Myths about Occupational Health and More, with REACH and the VdS in Las Vegas, NV

Breaking Myths about Occupational Health and More, with REACH and the VdS in Las Vegas, NV

Sep 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The tourism, casino, and entertainment industries provide more than 139,000 jobs to Hispanics in the state of Nevada, and in this extremely hot environment, heat stress can quickly become a life-…
An El Paso Project Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers to Learn about Health & Safety

VdS El Paso Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers on Health & Safety

Aug 24, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When at the end of 2021, Leslie Martínez, then National Coordinator of the Ventanillas de Salud, called to ask if I was interested in participating in a Worker Health and Safety Capacity…
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…
Farmworkers harvesting watermelon

New Study Shows People of Color Shoulder Burden of Harms Caused by Pesticides

Apr 19, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Farmworkers, people of color, and low-income communities have the highest levels of exposure and harm from pesticides, according to a peer-reviewed study published this week in BMC Public Health.…
Workers lay pavement

Heat Stress: Where Health Inequity Meets Climate Change

Feb 16, 2022
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In January, Colorado became the latest state to adopt heat stress regulations to protect farmworkers and other outdoor workers from the higher temperatures and more frequent heat events that are…
Farmers installing irrigation equipment in the dark

Overtime Pay: Why Are Farmworkers Excluded?

Feb 10, 2022
By: 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…
A farmworker in the field

Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard

Sep 15, 2021
By: 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…
A farmworker in a facemask in the field

Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health

Sep 7, 2021
By: 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…
Warehouse workers wearing masks move boxes

Position Statement: Mask Guidance Leaves Some Workers Vulnerable to Infection

May 26, 2021
By: 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…
A machine spraying pesticide in orchard

Long Path to Nationwide Ban: Chlorpyrifos and Farmworker Health

May 5, 2021
By: 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…
A construction worker

Workers Memorial Day: COVID-19 Lifts Veil on Workplace Hazards

Apr 28, 2021
By: 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…
a farmworker harvesting apples

Earth Day: Environmental Racism Persists with Antibiotic Usage in Agriculture

Apr 22, 2021
By: 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…
A vehicle spraying pesticides on a field

EPA Weakens Pesticide Standards; Endangers Health of Rural Communities

Nov 5, 2020
By: 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…
Farmworkers in the field with heavy smoke in the sky

Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle

Oct 13, 2020
By: 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…
Paulina Cortes, a community activist from San Jose, gives a protective particulate mask to a farmworker in Stockton, California, on November 16th, 2018.

Essential: Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke in California – and Health Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 – With Respirators

Aug 27, 2020
By: 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…
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.…
Farmworker parents after participating in an environmental health and safety talk with a community health worker.

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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In the Field: Training CHW Parents to Protect Kids from Environmental Exposures

Aug 26, 2019
By: 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…
Orange trees in an orchard

Antibiotics in Orange Groves: Resistance for the Masses, Unknown Health Consequences for the Farmworkers

Jul 2, 2019
By: 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
By: 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…
Greene County Health Care Staff

Diabetes, Disasters, Late Night Outreach: The Life of a Migrant & Neighborhood Health Nurse in North Carolina

Jun 5, 2019
By: 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
By: 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
By: 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…