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MCN Adrian Billings

Seeing Patients Cradle to Grave on the U.S. Mexico Border | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 1, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Adrian Billings, MD, has spent most of his career along the US/Mexico border near sleepy Presidio, Texas -- a land of vast desert claiming itself “the real frontier” on the city’s welcome sign.…
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Workers' Memorial Day

Apr 28, 2015
By: Amy Liebman
An estimated 54,000 workers died last year as a result of work-related injuries and illness. That figure, released this week for Workers’ Memorial Day by the National Council for Occupational Safety…
MCN BOD

Five on Friday | April 24, 2015

Apr 24, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate the weekend with the top five items from MCN staff, on the many happenings in migrant health and beyond. Ricardo, Health Network Manager, sent us another awesome map…
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Washington State Testimony: Drift Pesticide Exposure can have acute, chronic, and developmental effects

Apr 21, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last week, MCN’s Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH, MA, headed to the Washington State legislature’s Health and Wellbeing Committee to provide testimony on the wide-ranging effects of drift pesticide…
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Five on Friday | April 17, 2015

Apr 17, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Five on Friday: To bring you into the weekend, we present you with the top five items that MCN staff shared this week, on the many happenings in migrant health and beyond. Jillian, Director of…
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Weekly Round-Up | April 10, 2015

Apr 10, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! Time for our weekly rundown of interesting pieces of news and more from our team at MCN. Maps, maps, maps: Ricardo, Health Network Manager, found this new map visualizing the health…
MCN NPHW

Building Broader Connections #NPHW

Apr 9, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week is National Public Health Week, in which we celebrate the work we are doing as public health professionals to better the health and well-being of individuals and communities around the…
MCN Weekly Round-Up

Weekly Round-Up | April 3, 2015

Apr 3, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! Here’s our weekly rundown of interesting videos, programs, and stories, on migrant health and beyond, as recommended by MCN’s own staff. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to…
MCN WPS Update

21,000 Signatures

Apr 2, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
How thick is a petition with 21,000 signatures? On Tuesday, Cesar Chavez day, the Environmental Protection Agency found out. The EPA received a petition with 21,000 signatures from individuals…
MCN Cesar Chavez Day

Making the connection: How The Work of Cesar Chavez is Informing the Conversation Today

Mar 31, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Today is Cesar Chavez Day, in which we celebrate the birthday of a farmworker who fought for basic human rights and dignities for fellow farmworkers. And yet, decades later, there is still so much…
MCN 30 Clinicians

Weekly Round-Up | March 27, 2015

Mar 27, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Wow, we’ve had a very busy week here at Migrant Clinicians Network. We published an Op-Ed in the Sacramento Bee in honor of World TB Day, and we launched 30 Clinicians Making a Difference, to…
MCN World TB Day

World TB Day: Call to Accelerate Access to DR-TB Drugs

Mar 24, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In honor of World TB Day, on March 24th, Migrant Clinicians Network has joined dozens of organizations from across the globe in signing an important letter to global health actors and drug companies…
MCN Weekly Round-Up

Weekly Round-Up | March 13, 2015

Mar 13, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Hooray for Friday! Here’s something to bring with you into the weekend: this week’s news and notes, from MCN staff, on migrant health and beyond. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to receive our…
Jillian Issue Brief

MCN Weekly Round-Up | March 6, 2015

Mar 6, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Is it Friday, already? Here are some great updates on migrant health and beyond, sent by staff members at MCN. We hope you enjoy them. From Jillian, Director of Professional Development and…
Human Rights Hearing

Women's Human Rights Hearing in Texas

Mar 3, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Ed Zuroweste, MD, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, will be one of seven expert panelists in a women’s human rights hearing in Texas this week. The event, called Nuestra Voz, Nuestra Salud, Nuestro Texas…
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MCN Weekly Round-Up | February 27, 2015

Feb 27, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! Here are a few interesting pieces to keep us up-to-date in the world of migrant health, as recommended by staff at MCN. Amy, MCN’s Director of Environmental and Occupational Health,…
Dr. Rogers

Valentine's Week Round-Up

Feb 13, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! Here are some articles, talks, and resources that caught the eye of MCN employees this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. From Charlotte, Development Coordinator: Here's a…
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Five Reasons Why We Love Our New Website

Jan 6, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, after months of hard work, we launched the new version of the MCN website. The improved functionality, and its new design and navigation will assist us in our important work to provide…
Food Chains

Food Chains, the movie | Thanksgiving

Nov 25, 2014
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Just in time for Thanksgiving week, a new movie about food justice called Food Chains came out this past Friday and chronicles the battle of southern Florida tomato pickers to secure fair wages and…

Save Your Scraps | Thanksgiving

Nov 20, 2014
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
As Thanksgiving week approaches, more and more attention has been given to the upcoming feast. But what about the leftovers? Over at NPR in association with Harvest Public Media, a series on food…
Fair Trade Month

Trick or Treat: Who harvested the chocolate in your favorite Halloween candy?

Oct 31, 2014
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
October is not just a big, long prelude to Halloween night; it’s also Fair Trade Month, when we celebrate the movement to provide third-world farmers and farmworkers a fair wage and safe working…
Watermelon Farmer

Thank You for Supporting a Strengthened Worker Protection Standard

Sep 17, 2014
By: KerryBrennan
With your help, MCN added more than 17,000 voices to the call for stronger workplace protections for our nation's farmworkers.On Monday August 18, MCN submitted our Clinician Sign-On Letter, which…
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One of our own... spotlighting the artwork of Ileana Ponce-Gonzalez this Mother's Day

May 6, 2014
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
La Madre-acrylicIleana Ponce-Gonzalez, is not only a great Senior Advisor here at MCN, she proves an amazing artist as well. This year's Mother's Day card displays her talents, especially in…
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Protect Children in the Fields- Raise the Minimum Age Requirement for Handling Pesticides

Mar 28, 2014
By: MaryEMiller
The proposed revisions to the Worker Protection Standard have many positive elements and I, along and many others concerned about farm worker health applaud the EPA for this long-awaited proposal. In…
PHOTO- Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Congress Will See Life Through the Eyes of Farmworkers with Seth Holmes' "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies"

Mar 5, 2014
By: KerryBrennan
Last week, President Obama and every member of Congress received a copy of Seth Holmes’ Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. For nearly two years, physician and anthropologist Seth Holmes lived and worked as…
Noe and Anita

Don't let this be Noe and Anita's last Christmas together in the U.S.

Dec 19, 2013
By: Emily Oake
A missing screw on his license plate may take a single father away from his daughter. On February 5, 2013 a police officer pulled over Noe Parra Manrique. The reason: Noe’s truck was missing a screw…