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President Biden's New Immigration Plan: Ambitious, Detailed, Hopeful

Jan 25, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ByTimothy Dunn, Immigration Scholar and Professor of Sociology at Salisbury University brief overview of Biden’s really impressive immigration plan that he will be unveiling this week. The most…
A man being vaccinated by clinician

Top Six COVID-19 Resources for Vaccine Readiness for Immigrant and Migrant Communities

Jan 13, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinics, health centers, and health departments around the country are looking ahead to the vaccination of essential worker populations like farmworkers, who in many states are eligible for…
A clinician vaccinates a patient

Position Statement: Everyone Needs an Opportunity to Be Vaccinated

Jan 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts stated that workers who lack authorization to live or work in the US would not be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in his state, later clarifying that the…
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Witness to Witness: Aspects of Flourishing During the Holidays

Dec 22, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When the history of the last four years is written, I believe that ordinary people are going to be portrayed as the heroes of our time. Election officials, poll watchers, health care workers,…
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Prioritizing Farmworkers and Other Essential Food Workers for the COVID-19 Vaccine

Dec 21, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Yesterday, the Center for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that essential workers, including food and farm workers, receive COVID-19 vaccinations in…
Farmworkers harvest in orchard

Partnering Through the Pandemic: Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program’s Fight Against COVID-19

Dec 17, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Earlier this year, Melanie Finkenbinder, MD, shared thebest practicesthat Keystone Health, a health center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was using to fight COVID-19 in migrant agricultural worker…
Supporters of Kugel and Zuroweste Health Justice Award winner

"You Saved Lives": Celebrating the Kugel and Zuroweste Award Winner

Dec 9, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In a year defined by health inequities and limited health care access, the push for health justice remains crucial to Migrant Clinicians Network’s work. MCN’s Kugel and Zuroweste Health Justice…
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Photovoice: Migrant Farmworkers, Sharing Their Lives Through Photography

Dec 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Throughout my career I have used photography and qualitative research to understand communities that are not my own. My work has taken me as far away as Ethiopia, Nepal, and Bangladesh, but my…
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World AIDS Day: A Physician’s Look Back at 40 Years of Patients

Dec 1, 2020
By: Laszlo Madaras
Mild-mannered in person, Dr. Jonathan Mann could be a passionate speaker. In 1989, at an AIDS Action Committee dinner in Boston, he said: ''In the last few years we have gained confidence that as…
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Transgender Health and COVID-19

Nov 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach More than eight months after the Coronavirus first emerged in the public awareness as an impending health crisis,…
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Women’s Conference Creates Virtual Safe Space for Austin-Area Latinas

Nov 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Diana Cañas, MCN InternEarlier this month, the sixth annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the General Consulate of Mexico in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network, was virtual. In total, 68 women…
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Helping Patients Stay Safe in an Age of Misinformation

Nov 18, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Gayle Thomas, MD, is concerned. She has learned that many of her patients, whom she serves as the medical director of the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program, believe that if they go to the…
A clinician in PPE talks with a patient

#HeroesOnTheFrontline: Finding Inspiration from Clinicians Around the World

Nov 11, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In hindsight, my transition to an advocate for health justice seemed somewhat predestined. I came of age during the latter stages of the AIDS epidemic, during a time when dial-up internet…
A clinician with a child

Heroes on the Frontline: How to Support Clinicians in Times of Crisis

Oct 27, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ByAshley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach, Migrant Clinicians Network In 2002, beloved children’s educator and entertainer Fred Rogers advised his followers to find…
Workers harvesting apples

What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on Food and Farmworkers? MCN’s Amy Liebman Joins Marylanders to Discuss

Oct 6, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The impact of COVID-19 has not been spread equally. Within the exploitative structures of industrial agriculture, farm and food workers have frequently been unable to keep themselves safe on the…
Farmworker harvest strawberries

Two New Journal Articles Focus on Agricultural Workers, COVID-19, and Ways to Improve Health and Well-Being

Sep 29, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Two new solutions-oriented article commentaries focused on farmworkers and COVID-19 were published this month in the Journal of Agromedicine special issue on the pandemic. Co-written by MCN staff,…
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Crab Pickers Face Health Disparities in Maryland, Says New Report

Sep 25, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Every year, hundreds of migrant women make the arduous journey from their homes in Mexico to Maryland’s Eastern Shore to support our treasured crab industry – but in doing so, they put their…
A clinician protests against conditions in migrant detention

Position Statement: Medical Injustices and Human Rights Violations in Detention Must End

Sep 24, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A clinician protests the conditions in migrant detention facilities in Oregon. Credit: @Doctors4CampClosureLast week, a whistleblower complaint was filed describing medical procedures forced on…
A woman is vaccinated by a clinician in PPE

Statement: Community Health Workers, Outreach & Education Must Be Front & Center to Support Immigrants & Migrants When COVID-19 Vaccination Arrives

Sep 8, 2020
By: Aníbal Yariel López Correa
We thank the Committee for the opportunity to express our strong support of prioritizing immigrants and migrant workers and their families through enhanced vaccination programs at community…
Ed Zuroweste testifies before the NY State Labor and wage board

MCN’s Dr. Ed Zuroweste to New York State Labor and Wage Board on Overtime: “We Cannot Continue to Abuse Farmworkers”

Sep 1, 2020
By: Brenda Ramirez
My name is Ed Zuroweste. I’m a Board-Certified Family Physician with over 40 years’ experience in providing primary care, and I’m also the Founding Medical Director of Migrant Clinicians Network…
A child receiving a vaccination

Witness to Witness Provides Rapid Psychosocial Support for Community Health Workers During COVID-19

Aug 25, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Alma Galván MCH, MCN’s Senior Program Manager, approached Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, Director of the Witness to Witness (W2W)…
A group of clinicians test woman for Covid-19

Dr. Zuroweste, TB Expert, Calls for Increase in Public Health Resources as COVID-19 Draws Resources Away from TB

Aug 6, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Tuberculosis kills over 1.5 million people, every year. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, TB experts are gravely concerned that the already unacceptable number of annual deaths from TB is going to…
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Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award: Open for Nominations

Aug 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award recognizes a rising star clinician hard at work to achieve health justice, providing them with a one-time $1,000 award and national recognition through…
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Update from Witness to Witness: Pivoting to Virtual Peer Support for Clinicians Experiencing Moral Injury During Pandemic

Jul 28, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
  For decades, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, has explored how witnesses to violence are affected by that witnessing. Several years ago, Dr. Weingarten began to wonder how the helpers – like pro-bono…
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Unhoused and Undersupported in Post-Camp Fire Chico, California

Jul 27, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach, Migrant Clinicians Network Jennifer Smith, a Kansas resident, knows firsthand what hardship is. The blind mother of three…
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Coronavirus Chronicles: Updates on the Science for Clinicians and Advocates

Jul 27, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The data on COVID-19 continue to amass, and our understanding of the disease and its impact on vulnerable populations like migrants has grown significantly since March. The news and updates have…