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COVID-19 and Childcare Efforts for Vulnerable Families

COVID-19 and Childcare Efforts for Vulnerable Families

May 18, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For more than a year, “essential” workers have continued to work. Despite an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace, a disproportionate risk of contracting severe COVID-19,…
Midwife and new mother looking at infant

Health Network for Babies, Children, and Mothers

May 6, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Maria* was 36 weeks pregnant when she arrived at the immigrant shelter in McAllen, Texas, where the US-Mexico border is defined by the Rio Grande. Like so many fleeing violence, that is…
mothers at the border

Mother’s Day: A Young Asylum-Seeker Needing Prenatal Care, Health Network, and #LaborsOfLove

May 3, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This Mother’s Day, support asylum-seeking mothers to get the care they need for themselves and for their babies.Donate to #LaborsOfLove here. Courage comes in many forms. Often, American holidays…
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 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,…
Community health Worker speaking to participants

Serving Refugees, Immigrants, & Migrants When Virtual Isn't Possible: A COVID-19 Outreach Event Checklist

Jan 26, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The challenges of reaching refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities (RIM communities) have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. During a time when it is even more apparent that…
Presiden Biden giving a speech

President Biden's New Immigration Plan: Ambitious, Detailed, Hopeful

Jan 25, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ByTimothy Dunn, Immigration Scholar and Professor of Sociology at Salisbury University brief overview of Biden’s really impressive immigration plan that he will be unveiling this week. The most…
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 man being vaccinated by clinician

Top Six COVID-19 Resources for Vaccine Readiness for Immigrant and Migrant Communities

Jan 13, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinics, health centers, and health departments around the country are looking ahead to the vaccination of essential worker populations like farmworkers, who in many states are eligible for…
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…
Farmworker moves a crate of corn

Photovoice: Migrant Farmworkers, Sharing Their Lives Through Photography

Dec 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Throughout my career I have used photography and qualitative research to understand communities that are not my own. My work has taken me as far away as Ethiopia, Nepal, and Bangladesh, but my…
World AIDS Day graphic

World AIDS Day: A Physician’s Look Back at 40 Years of Patients

Dec 1, 2020
By: Laszlo Madaras
Mild-mannered in person, Dr. Jonathan Mann could be a passionate speaker. In 1989, at an AIDS Action Committee dinner in Boston, he said: ''In the last few years we have gained confidence that as…
The Transgender Pride flag

Transgender Health and COVID-19

Nov 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach More than eight months after the Coronavirus first emerged in the public awareness as an impending health crisis,…
A screenshot from the 2020 Womens Conference

Women’s Conference Creates Virtual Safe Space for Austin-Area Latinas

Nov 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Diana Cañas, MCN InternEarlier this month, the sixth annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the General Consulate of Mexico in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network, was virtual. In total, 68 women…
A cell phone showing the WHO facebook page

Helping Patients Stay Safe in an Age of Misinformation

Nov 18, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Gayle Thomas, MD, is concerned. She has learned that many of her patients, whom she serves as the medical director of the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program, believe that if they go to the…
A CHW presents to workers

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…
Campesinos sin Fronteras

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…
The BHW 2020 banner

Celebrating Binational Health Week XX Virtually

Oct 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By L. Roxana Pineda, MPH, Coordinator of the Ventanilla de Salud at Mexican Consulate in Austin, Migrant Clinicians NetworkEarlier this month, Migrant Clinicians Network and the Ventanilla de Salud…
Farmworkers in the field with heavy smoke in the sky

New Article Explores Vaccine Hesitancy Among Mexican Males Ahead of COVID-19 Vaccine

Oct 14, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A health fair attendee receives an immunization at the Mexican Consulate in Austin, Texas. The COVID-19 vaccine may not be ready for initial distribution for many months, but health authorities…
Farmworkers in the field with heavy smoke in the sky

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…
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…
Crabpickers working on the line

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…
A woman is vaccinated by a clinician in PPE

Statement: Community Health Workers, Outreach & Education Must Be Front & Center to Support Immigrants & Migrants When COVID-19 Vaccination Arrives

Sep 8, 2020
By: Aníbal Yariel López Correa
We thank the Committee for the opportunity to express our strong support of prioritizing immigrants and migrant workers and their families through enhanced vaccination programs at community…
A group of clinicians test woman for Covid-19

Dr. Zuroweste, TB Expert, Calls for Increase in Public Health Resources as COVID-19 Draws Resources Away from TB

Aug 6, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Tuberculosis kills over 1.5 million people, every year. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, TB experts are gravely concerned that the already unacceptable number of annual deaths from TB is going to…
Ed and Candace pose for photo with friend

Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award: Open for Nominations

Aug 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award recognizes a rising star clinician hard at work to achieve health justice, providing them with a one-time $1,000 award and national recognition through…
A woman watching a webinar on her laptop

Update from Witness to Witness: Pivoting to Virtual Peer Support for Clinicians Experiencing Moral Injury During Pandemic

Jul 28, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
  For decades, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, has explored how witnesses to violence are affected by that witnessing. Several years ago, Dr. Weingarten began to wonder how the helpers – like pro-bono…