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Farmworkers Push for Community-Led Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Tool, Understanding of Farmworker Needs at PACT Event

Farmworkers Push for Community-Led Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Tool, Understanding of Farmworker Needs at PACT Event

Jun 7, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At Wunsch Farms, a sixth-generation family farm in Traverse City, Michigan, cardboard fruit packing boxes and a forklift in a large clean warehouse show the readiness of the farm as cherry season…
New MCN Podcast Miniseries on COVID’s Lasting Impact

New MCN Podcast Miniseries on COVID’s Lasting Impact

Jun 1, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Is there more to learn about COVID care for vulnerable communities? Turns out, there are a lot of critical strategies that most outpatient clinicians aren't aware of. Aiming to help primary care…
Fair Food Program: Five-Day March in Florida to Build Support for Human Rights, Dignity, Worker Protections, and Fairer Wages for Farmworkers

Fair Food Program: Five-Day March in Florida to Build Support for Human Rights, Dignity, Worker Protections, and Fairer Wages for Farmworkers

Mar 9, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
On March 14th, farmworkers and their allies will begin a five-day Build a New World march across Florida to bring awareness to farmworker abuse and celebrate the efforts that farmworkers are taking…
Two Very Different Islands Grapple with Growing Crops in the Age of Climate Change

Two Very Different Islands Grapple with Growing Crops in the Age of Climate Change

Mar 2, 2023
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The distance between St. Croix, one of the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico is less than an hour by flight, and yet the agriculture on the two Caribbean islands are worlds away. In Puerto Rico,…
New Resource: Manual on Designing Community-Based Communication Campaigns, in English & Spanish

New Resource: Manual on Designing Community-Based Communication Campaigns, in English & Spanish

Feb 16, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
COVID pandemic funding is winding down across the country, but pandemic-era communication troubles remain. Trust in public health authorities has stayed low; health misinformation continues to…
What Are PFAS, and How Do These "Forever Chemicals" Impact Farmworker Communities? MCN and Farmworker Justice Weigh In.

What Are PFAS, and How Do These "Forever Chemicals" Impact Farmworker Communities? MCN and Farmworker Justice Weigh In.

Feb 9, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
We write on behalf of Farmworker Justice and Migrant Clinicians Network to urge you to support Senate Bill 158, Pesticide Registration - PFAS Testing – Requirements. Farmworker Justice is a…
COVID Emergency Declarations Are Ending. What Happens to Migrant & Immigrant Health and Health Access?

COVID Emergency Declarations Are Ending. What Happens to Migrant & Immigrant Health and Health Access?

Feb 6, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the end of January, the Biden Administration announced that federal emergency declarations around COVID-19 will expire on May 11, 2023. The emergency declarations paved the way for numerous…
Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Jan 24, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Yesterday, a farmworker allegedly opened fire on his coworkers in the greenhouses and farmworker housing of a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, a small coastal town not far from San Francisco,…
How the Pandemic Amplified Longstanding Disparities for Immigrant Workers

How the Pandemic Amplified Longstanding Disparities for Immigrant Workers

Dec 15, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
The pandemic revealed many weaknesses in the US economy, but these weaknesses are longstanding compared to the time frame of the pandemic. “Essential workers,” a new class of workers defined by…
Pursuing the Goal: A Health Justice Perspective on Soccer

Pursuing the Goal: A Health Justice Perspective on Soccer

Dec 13, 2022
By: Amy Liebman
Gooooal! The excitement of the World Cup echoes across the globe as soccer players from 32 countries compete to win the most coveted title in soccer. Taking place every four years, billions of…
Maryland Needs Basic, Common-Sense Heat Standard – Not What Has Been Proposed

Maryland Needs Basic, Common-Sense Heat Standard – Not What Has Been Proposed

Nov 3, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Every summer that farmworkers toil in the fields is the coolest summer they’ll ever experience. The world is warming at a dangerous pace, and farm work is becoming deadlier as a result. Strong…
New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

Oct 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians focused on migrant, immigrant, and other underserved patients must balance personal and professional stressors for their entire careers – but the pandemic added new weight and complexity…
Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Sep 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Nestled between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is the Delmarva peninsula, consisting of the state of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. Delmarva is home to diverse agricultural…
Breaking Myths about Occupational Health and More, with REACH and the VdS in Las Vegas, NV

Breaking Myths about Occupational Health and More, with REACH and the VdS in Las Vegas, NV

Sep 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The tourism, casino, and entertainment industries provide more than 139,000 jobs to Hispanics in the state of Nevada, and in this extremely hot environment, heat stress can quickly become a life-…
An El Paso Project Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers to Learn about Health & Safety

VdS El Paso Supports Hundreds of Migrant Workers on Health & Safety

Aug 24, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When at the end of 2021, Leslie Martínez, then National Coordinator of the Ventanillas de Salud, called to ask if I was interested in participating in a Worker Health and Safety Capacity…
Still impacted by the pandemic, Immigrant workers share concerns about COVID-19

Still Impacted by the Pandemic, Immigrant Workers Share Concerns About COVID-19

Aug 16, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Hannia Benitez and her coworkers are concerned. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the staff at El Vinculo Hispano, a North Carolina nonprofit serving Hispanic communities, has…
Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Jun 8, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
What does it mean to “do hope?” What if hope were a verb, not a noun? We Do Hope, a six-episode podcast that releases its final installment today, embraces that idea. Hope is not just something you…
Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Prepare for Future Emergencies

Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Preparing for Future Emergencies

Jun 2, 2022
By: Myrellis Muñiz Márquez
In August 2020, only five months after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Puerto Rico, the first pandemic school-year calendar was published. It left out one of the most important items all…
A worker processes poultry

The Trauma of Avian Flu: What Workers Need

May 17, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Avian flu is back, and it’s killing millions of chickens and turkeys across the Midwest and East Coast. In the short time that the H5N1 strain of avian flu has been spreading, over 37 million…
A clinician wearing ppe in the hospital

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

Feb 17, 2022
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

Feb 16, 2022
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?

Feb 10, 2022
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…
Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Jan 4, 2022
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…
Remembering Don Villarejo

Remembering Don Villarejo

Dec 22, 2021
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…
How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

Dec 16, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Jenna Feinauer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Dr Ivette Ruiz, MS-HSBP, Healing by Growing Farms LLC Although the frequency of mental illnesses among migrants varies, all migrants are subject…
A worker in a warehouse

MCN Position Statement: Climate-Integrated Disaster Preparedness Needed to Protect Most Vulnerable Workers

Dec 14, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Unprecedented tornados ripped through large swaths of the Midwest on Friday, killing dozens including many workers across multiple states. In Kentucky, eight people died at work at a candle factory…