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2018 Year in Review

Year in Review: Migrant Clinicians Network’s 2018 Highlights

Apr 11, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Almost 100,000 technical assistance encounters; 1,764 continuing education hours; a fifty percent increase in usage of Health Network by community health centers: In 2018, Migrant Clinicians…
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From the Border: Refugees and Their Health Needs, with Dr. Marsha Griffin

Apr 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
What’s happening at the border bridges? Dr. Griffin explains that, typically, an immigrant who wishes to seek asylum approaches the center of a walking bridge that crosses the Rio Grande to the US…
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New US Senate Bill Matches State Bills Seeking to Ban Chlorpyrifos

Mar 28, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Sofia Carrasco Earlier today, Senator Tom Udall introduced legislation that would ban chlorpyrifos across the nation. The bill, entitled Protect Children, Families and Farmworkers from Nerve…
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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Health Network Case Study Highlighting Social Distance

Mar 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A 39-year-old pregnant farmworker faces numerous health risks. Engaged in heavy physical labor and exposed to pesticides and heat, she may also face poor living conditions, contaminated water, or…
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In the Field: Puerto Rico Communities Build On Lessons Learned from Maria

Mar 13, 2019
By: Caitlin A. Fish J.D.
Last week, Puerto Rico, under severe financial constraints, began cutting food stamp benefits for over a million people. The demand for food stamps went up significantly after Hurricane Maria, which…
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In Memory of Dr. Paul Monahan

Mar 8, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“I speak specifically here of the loopholes in current laws, which exempt migrant and seasonal farmworkers and farmers from basic worker protection standards afforded to all other workers and child…
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Resilience: Puerto Rico Conference Shows Post-Maria Shift in Emergency Preparedness Leadership

Mar 7, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
By Claire Hutkins Seda, Staff Writer and Editor The term resilience implies that after a trauma the original condition is regained. After 2017’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria inflicted mass trauma on…
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#Amplify Health Justice: 24 hours to donate to MCN through @AmplifyATX

Feb 28, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Participants at a health fair organized by Ventanilla de Salud, MCN, and the Consulate General of Mexico, Austin. Austin: It’s not only the incubator of groundbreaking music for the entire…
Young girl gets ear inspection

A Child's Ear Surgery, A Family's Migration: Health Network in Action

Feb 27, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Retta, Health Network Associate While Health Network is available for any patient regardless of age, sex, race, or ethnicity, and for any health condition, it’s rare that we receive an…
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Climate Change: New England Journal of Medicine Asks Clinicians to Act

Jan 24, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Do clinicians have a role in addressing climate change? This week’s New England Journal of Medicine features an explosive perspective piece calling on clinicians to lead the fight. In “Climate…
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Dr. Ed Zuroweste: What is a climate migrant, and how do we care for them?

Jan 9, 2019
By: Brenda Ramirez
Today, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Ed Zuroweste, MD, Co-Chief Medical Officer, published an op-ed in STAT News detailing the rise of climate migrants -- those who are moving because climate…
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Dr. Laszlo Madaras on Immigration: Care and Respect is Part of the American Character

Jan 8, 2019
By: Jannette Nuñez
What a difference a half-century makes. 50 years ago in the fall of 1968, I arrived in America as a young boy, and my family was not very different from many of those waiting at the US-Mexico…
Migrant girl dies at border

Seven-Year-Old Migrant Girl’s Death: How to bring basic humanitarian aid to the border

Dec 18, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It is a heartbreaking refugee story: A seven-year-old girl, Jakelin Caal Maquin, and her father leave the family behind in a destitute village in Guatemala, to take a dangerous journey in…
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Puerto Rico: Strengthening Relationships, Building Community to Prepare for the Next Disaster

Dec 11, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“ the importance of including the needs of the community and the importance of helping the community to build their own ." -Participant in Mobilizing Communities in Puerto Rico to Meet the…
Changes to public charge

Clinician Action Today: Why Public Charge Affects Public Health

Dec 10, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Today is the final day for public comments on the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to public charge. Despite the proposal not yet being into effect, the consequences are already being felt…
Militarization of Mexican border

Militarization on the Border: Professor Timothy Dunn on the History and Implications for Health

Dec 4, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Assuring health justice for the mobile poor, including asylum seekers and refugees, starts with an immigration strategy that prioritizes health and well-being. As we’ve seen in recent months,…
In the spotlight: Alma Colmenero

In the Spotlight: Alma Colmenero, Health Network Associate

Nov 14, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
photo credit: Robert Corona “Alma is dedicated to her work. She’s a hard worker and reliable. She’s a very caring person, which is carried into her work. I know her patients are in good hands…
Ed Zuroweste treats baby

Giving Tuesday: Four Ways You Can Help Migrants and Refugees with Health Network

Nov 13, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Health Network, Migrant Clinicians Network’s unique bridge case management system, saves lives, hundreds of lives, every year. People like Maria*, who needed surgery on her leg after being…
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New Streamline Article: Hypertension During Disasters -- Lessons from Puerto Rico

Nov 7, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(Photo by CSM) “A patient had a stroke due to uncontrolled hypertension because his hypertension was untreated for two weeks and he was in continual stress. In this case, the doctor documents…
Farmworker harvests apples

MCN's New Worker Safety Project Serves the Haitian Community

Nov 6, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(Photo by Earl Dotter) Habacuc Petion’s father was working the midnight shift sanitizing at a chicken processing plant when his hand caught on the conveyor belt. Petion’s father suffered a broken…
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Voces Fuertes Benefit Concert: “We See You And We Care”

Oct 30, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“For the past two years, we’ve heard from clinicians all over the country variations on this theme, which is ‘my patients are experiencing increasing levels of fear and stress; the families that…
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MCN Statement on Recent Shooting in Pittsburgh

Oct 29, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
We at Migrant Clinicians Network are horrified and saddened by the recent mass shooting in which 11 people were killed in Pittsburgh. Hate of the “other” has once again resulted in a devastating…
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Witnessing: How Clinicians Can Move From Traumatic Stress to Empowerment While Serving Their Immigrant Patients

Oct 25, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(photo by Earl Dotter) When Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, first entered clinical practice as a psychologist and family therapist in 1970s Boston, she began to notice a common theme among her work with…
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On the Path to Health Justice: Marysel Pagán Santana

Oct 24, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
By Claire Hutkins-Seda Irma, Jeanne, Hugo. Bertha, Dean, Otto. Over the last 30 years, Puerto Rico has seen numerous devastating hurricanes, but last year’s Hurricane Maria was the most deadly,…
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Berkeley Benefit Concert: Youth Support MCN Through Activism

Oct 9, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last month, 30 teenagers from around Berkeley, California, piled onto couches and squatted on shag carpeting in a rec room of a local Presbyterian church. They had been listening to Deliana…
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UN High Level Meeting on TB: Declaration Must Be Met by Political Will and Resources

Oct 3, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Investment follows political will.” -Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, at the UN High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis “Investment follows political will.” -Henrietta Fore, Executive…