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Remembering Don Villarejo
Dec 22, 2021
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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…
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How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships
Dec 16, 2021
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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…
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Partner Spotlight: Kansas Black Farmers Association
Nov 4, 2021
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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…
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Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard
Sep 15, 2021
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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…
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Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health
Sep 7, 2021
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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…
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Chlorpyrifos Ban Will Protect Farmworker Childrens' Health, But A Full Ban Is Still Needed
Aug 25, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the ban of the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops. Migrant Clinicians Network celebrates the long-overdue ban of this dangerous…
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From Streamline: Hunger Hits Those Who Produce Our Food
Aug 12, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
By Jillian Hopewell There is a profound irony in the fact that many agricultural workers in the United States suffer from food insecurity. Those who plant, cultivate, and harvest the food we all…
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MCN Brings Much-Needed Farmworker, Clinician Perspectives to Pesticide Conference
Jul 29, 2021
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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…
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Long Path to Nationwide Ban: Chlorpyrifos and Farmworker Health
May 5, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, after years of effort from environmental health and farmworker advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to essentially ban…
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MCN’s Ed Zuroweste Asks NY to Ban Chlorpyrifos
Apr 13, 2021
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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…
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MCN Joins Lawsuit to Stop Trump Administration’s Rollback of AEZ, A Critical Pesticide Rule
Jan 5, 2021
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Migrant Clinicians Network
The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory standard that protects farmworkers from pesticide poisoning. But the Trump Administration has actively…
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Prioritizing Farmworkers and Other Essential Food Workers for the COVID-19 Vaccine
Dec 21, 2020
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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…
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Partnering Through the Pandemic: Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program’s Fight Against COVID-19
Dec 17, 2020
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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…
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Photovoice: Migrant Farmworkers, Sharing Their Lives Through Photography
Dec 2, 2020
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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…
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EPA Weakens Pesticide Standards; Endangers Health of Rural Communities
Nov 5, 2020
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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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MCN’s Liebman and Dr. Madaras: Health Disparities, Barriers Increase Farmworkers’ Risk of COVID-19
Oct 22, 2020
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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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Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle
Oct 13, 2020
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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…
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What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on Food and Farmworkers? MCN’s Amy Liebman Joins Marylanders to Discuss
Oct 6, 2020
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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…
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Two New Journal Articles Focus on Agricultural Workers, COVID-19, and Ways to Improve Health and Well-Being
Sep 29, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
Two new solutions-oriented article commentaries focused on farmworkers and COVID-19 were published this month in the Journal of Agromedicine special issue on the pandemic. Co-written by MCN staff,…
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MCN Position Statement: Testing of Agricultural Workers Helps Essential Workers Stay Safe and Healthy
Sep 29, 2020
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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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MCN’s Dr. Ed Zuroweste to New York State Labor and Wage Board on Overtime: “We Cannot Continue to Abuse Farmworkers”
Sep 1, 2020
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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…
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Essential: Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke in California – and Health Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 – With Respirators
Aug 27, 2020
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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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MCN Comic Book and Training Curriculum Helps Farmworkers Stay Safe From Pesticides
Aug 11, 2020
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Migrant Clinicians Network
COVID-19 is hitting farms hard. While outreach teams shift to provide COVID-19 prevention and support, they also continue to support farmworkers to avoid ongoing occupational hazards. Insecticides,…
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Call to Action: Protect Maryland Farmworkers from COVID-19
Jul 22, 2020
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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…
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Monterey County Medical-Legal Partnership Lays Groundwork for Expanded and Unprecedented Coalition of Agricultural Leaders, Farmworker Advocates, and Clinicians
Jul 13, 2020
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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…
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Q&A With Dr. Eva Galvez: How Clinicians Can Protect Farmworkers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Partnerships and Advocacy
May 6, 2020
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Claire Hutkins Seda
In Oregon, migrant farmworkers will soon begin to arrive to pick the ripe berries for which Oregon is famous. As “essential workers,” farmworkers have labored in fields and orchards across the US…
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