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Transformation & Growth: A Message from MCN’s CEO

Transformation & Growth: A Message from MCN’s CEO

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…

Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

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…

Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

Their stories are harrowing. The murder of children, and death threats at home. No work, no crops, no food. Unavoidable violence and a feeling that the only way to get to safety is to flee home.…

Peletah Ministries members gathered

Partner Spotlight: Peletah Ministries

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Health Worker (CHW) safety has increasingly been highlighted as a topic of concern. Over the span of MCN’s many COVID-19 learning…

MCN's 2021 Impact Report

Building Health Equity: MCN’s Impact in 2021

This week, Migrant Clinicians Network released its 2021 Impact Report, highlighting several key programs and initiatives, in which MCN pushed for health justice in 2021. The report outlines MCN’s…

Farmworkers harvesting watermelon

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

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.…

Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCNâs Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCN’s Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Paulina Segovia, PA, RDN, is only in her second year as a physician’s assistant at Tepeyac Community Health Center in Denver, CO – but she is already making a significant impact on her community.…

Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Following years of disinvestment in US public health and social services, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the mounting systemic racial inequity, poverty, and unequal access to…

Dr. Laszlo Madaras provides a check-up to a child held by their parent

Celebrating the Value of Underrepresented Voices: MacKenzie Scott Announces MCN Gift

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Dr. Laszlo Madaras, Chief Medical Officer at MCN, meets with migrants at a shelter in McAllen, Texas. At Migrant Clinicians Network, we have dedicated our lives to raising up the voices of migrants…

Midwife Annie checks on a mother's health

Annie Leone, CNM: A Dedication to Pregnant Asylum Seekers at the Border

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Annie Leone, CNM, provides a check-up to a pregnant asylum seeker. A pregnant asylum seeker, recently released from detention, is due any day but has been separated from her partner, who was…

People pushing a van out of a rut

I’m in a Rut. What Can I do About It?

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

What exactly is a rut? A rut is a pattern of behavior or of the fabric of one’s life that is so familiar that it feels boring and unproductive. Many people have started to feel – or have been…

People gather in a line for supplies

"US and Global Infrastructure is Unprepared and Unwilling to Prepare for the Increase in Migration" -- Four Critical Strategies to Take On Climate Migration

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

What is the IPCC? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was initiated by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988. Since then, it has regularly reported and…

Attendees at the Photovoice Exhibit

Women’s Voices Matter. MCN’s Photovoice Project Is Dedicated to Them.

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Today is International Women's Day. Across the world, numerous countries will recognize the contributions of women across cultural, economic, political, and social spheres. The roots of this…

A collage of different people

MCN Drives Forward Health Equity with $5 Million Gift from MacKenzie Scott

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Migrant Clinicians Network’s exceptional work to advance health equity for migrant, immigrant, and asylum-seeking communities has been honored and elevated by a $5 million gift from author and…

Dr. Paul Farmer with MCNâs Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019.

In Memoriam: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019. This week, the world lost one of its most vocal and effective champions of health equity, Paul Farmer, MD, PhD. Dr. Farmer is…

A clinician wearing ppe in the hospital

We Hear You: Opening Ourselves to What Health Care Workers Are Feeling Now

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

At the end of last year, Dr. Nirav Shah, the Director of Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, mentioned a cartoon he had seen of a patient in a hospital bed being kept afloat by a…

Workers lay pavement

Heat Stress: Where Health Inequity Meets Climate Change

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?

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…

Clinician speaking with patient

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

By: Laszlo Madaras

By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to…

Two people wearing masks

How to Help Someone through the Uncertainty of Waiting

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

For most of us, this has been a year of uncertainty. Whether in our roles as a family member, friend, or clinician, we can take steps to be helpful to others who are living through the…

Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

Partner Spotlight: American Indian Mothers Inc.

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Within rural regions, fear of COVID-19 vaccines has been a major barrier to protecting vulnerable communities during the pandemic. If we want to help these communities get protection from the…

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

For over a decade, Campesinos Sin Fronteras (CSF) has worked tirelessly to launch a bilingual radio station serving the border populations of Yuma County, Arizona, and the Northwestern corner of…

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Hope and Celebration: Top Six MCN Blogs of 2021

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

The end of the year presents opportunities for growth and reflection around future goals and visions. Here at Migrant Clinicians Network, we gather (this year, virtually) during the first few weeks…

A mother and child receive supplies from clinician

Climate-Impacted Communities Deserve Better, with Myrellis Muñiz-Márquez

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

The climate crisis is constantly transforming the world as we know it. Alterations in climate patterns that previously took centuries to develop are now evident in only decades or even less.…

Remembering Don Villarejo

Remembering Don Villarejo

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Last month, researcher, professor, and farmworker health advocate Don Villarejo passed away. Villarejo was a founder of the California Institute for Rural Studies, an important nonprofit research…

A mother holding her infant

Pregnant Asylum Seekers Deserve Better, with Pinky Garcia

At Health Network, we help hundreds of pregnant asylum seekers every year. Their health needs are often complicated, and getting care for them is frequently very difficult because they are so…

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