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Clinicians Standing together

How to De-Escalate a Tense Interaction

Nov 18, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Recently, at a shopping mall in an urban city, three community outreach workers were standing near a table that had a colorful tri-fold with helpful, local information about how to get a vaccine…
A volunteer holding a sign for vaccination

Partner Spotlight: Alabama State Association of Cooperatives

Nov 17, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In rural Alabama, the struggle to get people vaccinated can be laborious work. “The people will tell us that ‘they’re waiting on God, it causes sterilization in male and females… it’s a hoax…
A person receiving a vaccination

Partner Spotlight: Kansas Black Farmers Association

Nov 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For Black farmers in Kansas, the pandemic has not been easy. After decades of shrinking land ownership, the challenges of COVID-19 represent a new kind of threat, and organizations like the Kansas…
MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana: Devoted to Serve Climate-Impacted Workers, Mobilizing Rural Puerto Rican Communities to Protect the Most Vulnerable

MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana: Devoted to Serve Climate-Impacted Workers, Mobilizing Rural Puerto Rican Communities to Protect the Most Vulnerable

Oct 28, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Yesterday, 140 people from across the country joined an American Public Health Association (APHA) virtual meeting to celebrate worker health and safety advocates. And we at MCN excitedly watched…
A person holding a vaccination record card

Include the Alias? Skip the Real Name? COVID-19 Vaccination Card Recommendations

Oct 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Names can be a complex thing for immigrant and migrant workers. These workers often must use a pseudonym in workplaces, as they may lack documentation to legally work in the United States using…
A person wearing protective helmet drinks water

Extreme Heat Is a Killer. A New Federal Initiative Prioritizes Worker Health and Safety.

Oct 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Kathleen Rest, Executive Director of Union of Concerned Scientists On Monday, President Biden announced a new cross-agency initiative to address extreme heat – the nation’s leading weather-…
A farmworker in the field

Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard

Sep 15, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Heat stress kills food and farmworkers – and every heat-related illness that these workers experience can be prevented. Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) is drafting a much-needed…
A farmworker in a facemask in the field

Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health

Sep 7, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2020, America got a close-up look at the exploitative conditions, lack of basic occupational protections, poor access to health care, and institutional oppression that food and farm workers have…
A worker in a facemask

COVID-19 Vaccine Employer Mandates Should Be Accompanied By Basic Protections & Worker Accommodations

Aug 31, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the first year of the pandemic, meat packing facilities, farms and orchards, and food warehouses became hotspots of transmission, as essential workers were required to work through the pandemic,…
Person working with window open

Migrant Clinicians Network Reveals Ventilation Checklist for Safe Workplaces

Aug 2, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Robert Kinnaird As COVID-19 primarily spreads through the air, workplaces with poor ventilation are among the most endangered by the virus. To address the problems poor ventilation can create,…
Alma Galván, MCH, MCN’s Senior Program Manager; Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Eva Galvez, MD, from MCN’s Board of Directors; Mily Treviño-Sauceda, Executive Director of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Inc.; and Amy Liebman, MPA, MCN’s Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, at PACT 2021.

MCN Brings Much-Needed Farmworker, Clinician Perspectives to Pesticide Conference

Jul 29, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Alma Galván, MCH, MCN’s Senior Program Manager; Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Eva Galvez, MD, from MCN’s Board of Directors; Mily Treviño-Sauceda, Executive Director of…
Farmworkers in the field

Heat, Climate Change, and Outdoor Workers: New Clinicians’ Guide to Heat-Related Illnesses

Jul 7, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
It’s hot – and it’s getting hotter. Climate change is increasing the number of extreme-heat days across the US. This increase in heat is dangerous for outdoor workers, from agricultural workers, to…
A man receives a vaccination from a clinician

US-Mexico Collaboration Gets Workers at the Border Vaccinated

Jun 22, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the US-Mexico border, the pace of vaccination has depended on which side of the wall one is on. In the US, available vaccines have outstripped the number of people interested in vaccinations. In…
CHW speaks with a farmworker

Workplace Protections for Essential Workers Must Consider RIM Communities

Jun 1, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
While COVID-19 is a public health threat to the entire US population, there is growing evidence that the outbreak disproportionately affects some populations, including certain refugee, immigrant and…
Warehouse workers wearing masks move boxes

Position Statement: Mask Guidance Leaves Some Workers Vulnerable to Infection

May 26, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their mask guidance to allow fully vaccinated individuals to resume most indoor and outdoor activities without wearing masks…
A construction worker

Workers Memorial Day: COVID-19 Lifts Veil on Workplace Hazards

Apr 28, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Fifty years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect. The act aimed to protect workers from injury and illness related to their work. It created the Occupational Safety…
Take MCN’s 2021 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2021 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 27, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A recent study shows that, as former President Trump developed his presidential campaign’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, immigrants and migrants who lack authorization to live and work in the US began to…
A vehicle spraying pesticides on a field

MCN’s Ed Zuroweste Asks NY to Ban Chlorpyrifos

Apr 13, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Good evening. My name is Dr. Ed Zuroweste. I am a family physician providing health care and other services for migrant farmworkers for over 40 years and I am the Founding Medical Director of…
A woman receives the COVID-19 vaccine

Health Department and Vaccine Clinic Considerations to Reach Migrant and Immigrant Workers: A COVID-19 Vaccine Accessibility Checklist

Feb 18, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
As hope remains that the availability of vaccines will grow, health departments and vaccine clinics must prepare to better serve hard-to-reach populations such as persons in the refugee,…
An agricultural worker harvesting apples

Planning, Partnerships, and Perseverance: Overcoming Challenges on the COVID-19 Frontlines

Feb 3, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2020, while COVID-19 outbreaks were already hitting farms further south, Maine's late harvest window provided clinicians and public health workers a longer lead time to prepare and advocate…
Laszlo Madaras and colleague in PPE

750 COVID-19 Patients Later, A One-Year Milestone

Feb 2, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Dr. Laszlo Madaras We have now lived through a sad anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the US, which was reported on January 20th, 2020. Just two weeks later, the first week of February…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras receives COVID-19 vaccination

Eyes Wide Open, and Hopeful: On Receiving the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Injection, From a Hospitalist on the Frontlines

Jan 20, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
By: Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH I write this after having received the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and anticipating the second injection of the same in a few hours. Some of my friends say I am…
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…
A teacher prepares for the school year

Why is the implementation of comprehensive occupational health programs for school personnel essential for a safe reopening of schools? A summary of our most recent training program in Puerto Rico

Jan 5, 2021
By: Anonymous
By: Marysel Pagán-Santana, DrPH, Puerto Rico Senior Program ManagerOne of the most repeated topics of public discussion in Puerto Rico and around the world is the opening of educational institutions…
Foodworkers on the line at a packaging facility

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…