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#HeroesOnTheFrontline: Finding Inspiration from Clinicians Around the World

Nov 11, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In hindsight, my transition to an advocate for health justice seemed somewhat predestined. I came of age during the latter stages of the AIDS epidemic, during a time when dial-up internet…
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EPA Weakens Pesticide Standards; Endangers Health of Rural Communities

Nov 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled back a critical safeguard for farmworker health: the application exclusion zone, or AEZ. The AEZ is an important part of the Worker…
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Capacity Building in Occupational Health: Ventanilla de Salud of San Bernardino, CA

Oct 28, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By:Graciela MolinaIn our community of San Bernardino, in the Inland Empire not far from Los Angeles, a significant percentage of workers harvest fruits and vegetables, and the majority of these…
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MCN’s Liebman and Dr. Madaras: Health Disparities, Barriers Increase Farmworkers’ Risk of COVID-19

Oct 22, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
On Tuesday, two staff members from Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) presented to the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (NACMH) on farmworker health in the midst of the pandemic. The day…
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Building Capacity in Occupational Health: Campesinos Sin Fronteras and La Ventanilla de Salud de Yuma, AZ

Oct 21, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ByRose Guerra, Betsabe Ruiz and Idolina CastroCampesinos Sin Fronteras (CSF) is a non-profit organization with the mission to promote self-sustainability for agricultural workers and people with low…
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Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle

Oct 13, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Photo: United Farm Workers For almost two months, wildfires have suffocated the Northern California sky. A dry mid-August lightning storm ignited thousands of fires, many of which grew rapidly in…
Workers harvesting apples

What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on Food and Farmworkers? MCN’s Amy Liebman Joins Marylanders to Discuss

Oct 6, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The impact of COVID-19 has not been spread equally. Within the exploitative structures of industrial agriculture, farm and food workers have frequently been unable to keep themselves safe on the…
MCN Position Statement: Testing of Agricultural Workers Helps Essential Workers Stay Safe and Healthy

MCN Position Statement: Testing of Agricultural Workers Helps Essential Workers Stay Safe and Healthy

Sep 29, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the absence of a national, evidenced-based testing strategy, decisions regarding the provision of COVID-19 tests for agricultural workers have been left to states, to counties, and, in many cases…
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Crab Pickers Face Health Disparities in Maryland, Says New Report

Sep 25, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Every year, hundreds of migrant women make the arduous journey from their homes in Mexico to Maryland’s Eastern Shore to support our treasured crab industry – but in doing so, they put their…
Ed Zuroweste testifies before the NY State Labor and wage board

MCN’s Dr. Ed Zuroweste to New York State Labor and Wage Board on Overtime: “We Cannot Continue to Abuse Farmworkers”

Sep 1, 2020
By: Brenda Ramirez
My name is Ed Zuroweste. I’m a Board-Certified Family Physician with over 40 years’ experience in providing primary care, and I’m also the Founding Medical Director of Migrant Clinicians Network…
Paulina Cortes, a community activist from San Jose, gives a protective particulate mask to a farmworker in Stockton, California, on November 16th, 2018.

Essential: Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke in California – and Health Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 – With Respirators

Aug 27, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This week, as fires burned across California, blackening skies and raining ash on ripe crops, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CalOSHA) reminded employers of the…
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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…
Farmworkers wearing protective gear while working

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…
Dr. Eula Bingham

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…
Meat processing plant workers

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 Centers on the Frontlines | HOPE Clinic Ramps Up Telehealth, Starts Rapid Testing

Health Centers on the Frontlines: HOPE Clinic Ramps Up Telehealth, Starts Rapid Testing

May 4, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In Houston, Texas, HOPE Clinic is living up to its name. The large urban community health center rapidly ramped up its telehealth services as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and now almost 20 percent…
A construction worker wearing protective equipment

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…
A worker on a processing line at a poultry plant

Worker Safety is Safety for All of Us

Apr 21, 2020
By: Amy Liebman
Photo by Earl Dotter By Amy K. Liebman, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network “There are mountains beyond mountains. The struggle continues.” Citing the…
A farmworker carrying cranberries

MCN Farmworker Ally Speaks Out: What Do Low Wages Mean for Farmworkers?

Apr 20, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
During our weekly all-staff meeting, MCN staff members discussed the worrying health consequences of the proposed pay cut for H2A workers in the midst of the pandemic, during which such workers are…
Health Centers on the Frontlines

Health Centers on the Frontlines: Mary's Center on Virtual Enabling Services, Internal Communication, and Finances during COVID-19

Apr 16, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
At Mary’s Center, a large Washington, DC and Maryland-based community health center with five clinical sites, two senior service centers, and 23 school-based mental health sites in partnership…
Participants of training in Laredo, TX.

How A Workplace Injury Inspired A Worker: Workers' Rights and Train-the-Trainer in Laredo, TX

Mar 26, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
MCN's Kate Kruse and Alma Galvan with the participants of the Train-the-Trainers workshop in Laredo, TX.In all areas of work, people face the risk of injury on a daily basis. From acute injuries that…
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria.

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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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…
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.…
A construction worker wearing a mask and protective equipment

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…
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In the Field: Training CHW Parents to Protect Kids from Environmental Exposures

Aug 26, 2019
By: Jordana Oman
When Gloria came to work in the United States, lead poisoning was a hazard she had never even heard of, much less encountered in her day-to-day life. Known as the “invisible villain,” lead is a hard…