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Supporting Clinicians During Their Most Challenging Moments: Witness to Witness, by Dr. Laszlo Madaras

Jul 23, 2020
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH TS Eliot once wrote that April is the cruelest month, but I would put in a bid for July. While I have spent many happy summers on the shores of Maine and Cape Cod in…
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Call to Action: Protect Maryland Farmworkers from COVID-19

Jul 22, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This week, Migrant Clinicians Network joined 108 organizations in asking Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enact emergency orders to protect farmworkers and poultry and seafood workers from COVID-19…
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Community Mobilization as a Model for Preparedness with Equity

Jul 15, 2020
By: Anonymous
Written by Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, MCN’s Program Manager in Puerto RicoFor years, climate experts have warned of the implications of the climate crisis and how it will affect seasonal…
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Monterey County Medical-Legal Partnership Lays Groundwork for Expanded and Unprecedented Coalition of Agricultural Leaders, Farmworker Advocates, and Clinicians

Jul 13, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In mid-March, as California’s abrupt COVID-19 shutdown pushed millions to shelter in place, a group of farmworker advocates began to discuss the vulnerabilities of local farmworkers, who were working…
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Tu voz importa / Your Voice Matters: New MCN Project Elevates Lives of Migrant Farmworker Women

Jul 1, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Migrant Clinicians Network As Bob Dylan once crooned, the times, they are a-changin’. With news events like the disproportionate death toll of…
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Dr. Eula Bingham: Heroine for workers’ right to safe and healthy jobs

Jun 30, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Dr. Eula Bingham (2015). Credit: Maryam Jameel/Center for Public Integrity Written by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, The Pump Handle Colleagues, former students, and advocates are sharing…
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A Tribute to Mary Englerth

Jun 22, 2020
By: Jannette Nuñez
MCN's Dr. Laszlo Madaras with Mary Englerth, PA, in front of Keystone Health. By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for the Migrant Clinicians Network The end of May 2020 saw the end…
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A Tribute to a Patient Who Died of COVID-19

Jun 3, 2020
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for the Migrant Clinicians Network His name, translated from French, was something like “Dear Heart”* I got to know him when I admitted him to our…
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What Primary Care Means: Notes from Amy K. Liebman on the Patient Perspective

Jun 2, 2020
By: Amy Liebman
By Amy K. Liebman, MPA Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network, Salisbury, MD In 1984, three dedicated clinicians from various corners of the US met at a…
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Position Statement: Standing in Solidarity Against Racial Violence and Injustice

Jun 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Migrant Clinicians Network, a nonprofit dedicated to health justice, mourns and condemns the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade. Racism, as we have witnessed…
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We’re not blaming the elderly. We’re not blaming healthcare workers. So why do we accuse essential workers for being sickened and killed by COVID-19?

May 27, 2020
By: Amy Liebman
By Amy K. Liebman, MPA Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network, Salisbury, MD Each day I watch in utter dismay the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases among…
Health Justice in 2020

Health Justice in 2020

May 19, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The world has shifted significantly since the start of this year, and yet, at Migrant Clinicians Network, our core agenda to build practical solutions at the intersection of vulnerability, migration…
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Position Statement: Racist Rhetoric About Workers Must Stop; Emergency Protections Must Increase

May 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Migrant Clinicians Network is gravely concerned about the implications and repercussions of recent comments about the cultures and personal lives of essential workers in meatpacking plants. The…
Giving Tuesday Now: Witness to Witness

Trauma, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Giving Tuesday Offers Support for Frontline Clinicians

May 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The last time I ever spoke to my friend Anna, she cried about resigning from her job. Educated at my own alma mater, eventually graduating with a degree in counseling, she had run the gamut of…
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Take Action: Rescind Order to Halt Asylum Processes

Apr 30, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, Migrant Clinicians Network joined Doctors for America, Refugee Health Alliance, and Human Impact Partners to demand that Robert R. Redfield, MD, the Director of Centers for Disease…
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Next Steps: Keeping Essential Workers Essential, After the Pandemic

Apr 27, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Photo: (c) www.earldotter.com For perhaps the first time in American history, farmworkers have been recognized as essential. While their manual labor has been the backbone of our agricultural…
Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ICE raids. Public charge. Rhetoric around immigration. In the last three years, clinicians who have taken MCN’s annual poll have confirmed that forces outside of the clinic interrupt health care…
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Streamline: #MeToo in the Fields: New Video and Curriculum to Eliminate Agricultural Worker Sexual Harassment

Mar 18, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Cast and crew of training video filming. Yakima, WA | September 2019 By Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Managing Editor, Streamline When the #MeToo movement exploded…
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How MCN Built Practical Solutions in 2019: Our Year in Review

Mar 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2019, thanks to the remarkable support of our network, Migrant Clinicians Network faced many new challenges in migrant health head-on, with innovative resources, programs, training, and technical…
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on the webinar for providers of support for Camp Fire survivors

Camp Fire Response and Recovery: A Snapshot of Community Providers’ Perspectives

Feb 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on a webinar for those who provide support or services to Camp Fire survivors. On November 19, 2019, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) held a free…
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Winter Streamline: Witness to Witness: Helping Health Care Supervisors Address Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout

Feb 4, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Clinicians are overwhelmed. But what exactly is fueling the emotional exhaustion? Clinician burnout, says Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, is just part of the problem, particularly in health centers motivated…
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Update from Puerto Rico: Earthquakes Expose Pre-Existing Needs in Communities

Jan 30, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A truck loaded with supplies donated for those impacted by the earthquakesMarysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, MCN’s Puerto Rico Program Manager, has spent time in recent weeks volunteering to help…
MCN Staff and Board at the 2020 Strategic Planning Meeting in Austin, TX

Migrant Clinicians Network’s 2020 Strategic Meeting: Celebratory, Collaborative, and Renewing

Jan 29, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
MCN Staff and Board at the 2020 Strategic Meeting in Austin, TX Migrant Clinicians Network marked the new year with its annual in-person strategic meeting, during which the Board of Directors and…
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX.

A Six-Year-Old Asylum Seeker with Microcephaly and Frequent Seizures Struggles to Get Emergency Care, So Health Network Steps In

Jan 23, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX. A young Guatemalan mother and father and their two young sons crossed the border earlier this…
Marysel Pagán Santana with relief team members in Maricao

Earthquakes in Puerto Rico: Learning from communities and supporting their work

Jan 16, 2020
By: Anonymous
MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana with members of a relief team at a camp in Maricao for those displaced by the earthquakes.By Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MSFor the last 100 years, Puerto Rico, despite…
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Best of the MCN Blog: Most Important Stories of 2019

Jan 9, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy New Year! In 2019, Migrant Clinicians Network published 167 blog posts. Whew! With so many posts, it can be difficult to keep up! As we start a new year, many articles rise to the top,…