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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,…
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Top 5 Reasons I <3 MCN

Dec 26, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Migrant Clinicians Network makes us swoon. That’s because, as an organization, it has taken huge strides in improving the health and well-being of migrants and immigrants in its 35-year history --…
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An Asylum Seeker, Her High-Risk Pregnancy, and Deep Vein Thrombosis: A Health Network Case Study

Dec 21, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Marisa*, a 40-year-old asylum seeker from Central America, was seven months pregnant when she was detained by border patrol. While in custody, she started having difficulty breathing, lower abdomen…
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.…
Going Platinum: Migrant Clinicians Network Earns GuideStar’s Highest Seal of Transparency

Going Platinum: Migrant Clinicians Network Earns GuideStar’s Highest Seal of Transparency

Dec 18, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This month, Migrant Clinicians Network earned a 2019 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest and most trusted source of nonprofit…
Deliana Garcia, MA, Director, International Projects and Emerging Issues

Deliana Garcia: Intrepid Champion for Health Justice

Dec 17, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Deliana Garcia has been a relentless and intrepid champion for health justice with Migrant Clinicians Network for over three decades. Known for her determination, she has dedicated her career to…
Dr. Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly and Dr. Robert Shelly

MCN Welcomes Dr. Franyuti and Dr. Shelly to Board of Directors

Dec 11, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Earlier this year, Migrant Clinicians Network welcomed two new board members to our clinician-driven Board of Directors: Giorgio Alberto Franyuti Kelly, MD, and Robert Shelly, MD, FAAP. Dr.…
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Helping the Helpers: Tools for Trauma and Self-Care in the Wake of the Camp Fire

Dec 9, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
a worker helping Camp Fire survivors, what pitfalls do you think are pertinent? In contrast, what ways can maximize effectiveness in the field?” This question, asked by a participant during…
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…
MCN Staff and Board of Directors

Gratitude In Action: Why I’m Donating to MCN

Dec 3, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last Thursday, before diving into our steaming plates of vegetable sides and stuffing, my family went around the table to say aloud a few things for which we’re grateful. It’s remarkable how,…
Saul Delgado, Health Network Database Specialist

Saul Delgado: From a Childhood in Cuba, to Health Network Database Specialist

Dec 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Saul Delgado’s childhood summers were spent climbing mango trees with his cousins in his grandmother’s backyard in San Juan y Martinez, a tobacco-growing region in the western Cuban countryside.…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian Border

Dr. Madaras: A Refugee’s First Thanksgiving

Nov 27, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian border while traveling in 2019. Fifty years ago, after a year living as refugees, the family of Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, finally arrived in Bangor, Maine…
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria.

From Streamline: How Three Communities in Puerto Rico Mobilized to Prepare for the Next Big Disaster

Nov 21, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria. Two years ago, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, dismantling basic infrastructure. Most of the island was left…
Participants raise hands as part of presentation at 5th annual women's conference

MCN’s Fifth Annual Women’s Conference: Empowerment, Community Organizing at the Mexican Consulate

Nov 14, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This weekend, 126 Austin-area Latinas gathered for the annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the Mexican Consulate in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network. With the late autumn Texan sun…
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“Building the Plane Mid-Air”: A Local Perspective, A Year After the Camp Fire

Nov 7, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Molly Jolliff One year ago, on November 8th, 2018, my priority at the start of my workday was to pick up flowers for my organization’s five-year anniversary celebration. However, within moments…
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Announcing MCN’s Updated Mission and Vision

Nov 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Since 1984, Migrant Clinicians Network has worked tirelessly to build practical solutions at the intersection of vulnerability, migration, and health -- and we’re ready for the next 35 years. To…
A chorus sings at the 2018 Voces Fuertes Concert

One Year Later: Voces Fuertes Still Singing for Justice

Oct 30, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
One year ago this week, the powerful voices and instruments of Berkeley area youth resonated in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, all for a good cause: Migrant Clinicians…
MCN's Dr. Laszlo Madaras with Mary Englerth

Mary Englerth, PA, Clinical Hero in Pennsylvania, Retires

Oct 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
After over three decades of service of farmworkers in rural Pennsylvania, Mary Englerth, PA, is retiring. “Hermana Mary,” as many know her in the farmworker camps, is a Maryknoll Missioner and,…
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In the Field: Binational Health Week Kickoff with Ventanilla de Salud, Austin

Oct 17, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Edwardo Retta, Health Network AssociateOctober is a month for health awareness and the Ventanilla de Salud likes to begin the month with it its annual Binational Health Week Kickoff, which…
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Pregnant and Without Health Care: Dr. Adrian Billings on New Public Charge Rule

Oct 15, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This summer, a woman who was four months pregnant discontinued her Medicaid health care, despite being legally eligible for the coverage, and planned to pay out of pocket for prenatal care,…
Woman holding up hand with the word 'STOP' written on it

Project Catalyst: Evidence-Based IPV and Trafficking Engagement

Oct 10, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Juana* had been in an abusive relationship for years. For the last two years, she’d been working with the behavioral health clinician at her local community health center in Arkansas. The…
Candace Kugel - MCN 35 year anniversary

Candace Kugel: A Life Serving Immigrant Women and Children

Oct 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Over the course of her decades of care for the underserved, Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS, has delivered hundreds of babies, from Pennsylvania to Honduras, trained hundreds of clinicians to…
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Masks for Fires: Kathryn Conlon, PhD, MPH Analyses new California Emergency Wildfire Smoke Regulation For Outdoor Workers

Sep 25, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
For two weeks in November, 2018, the California sun was almost extinguished. The Camp Fire, which quickly became the deadliest wildfire in California history, was torching the northern foothill…
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria.

Two Year Anniversary of Hurricane Maria: Community Mobilization After Maria is Key to Addressing Climate Crisis, Says MCN’s Marysel Pagán Santana

Sep 24, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Tomorrow, Tropical Storm Karen will bear down on Puerto Rico. As the island braces to be hit once again by another storm -- one which has an increased impact because of the legacy of Hurricane…
Mike Seifert points at lists of names of those waiting to be called to cross border legally

Perspective from the Border: Mike Seifert

Sep 18, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“The Rio Grande Valley, which is one end of our very long southern border, is an entity in and of itself,” summarized Mike Seifert, a border advocate and resident for over 30 years. The region’s…