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Five on Friday: Gratitude Edition

Five on Friday: Gratitude Edition

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

What are you grateful for? In MCN’s Witness to Witness resource, How to Help Yourself in a Crisis Now, one of the recommendations is: “Start your day by writing down three things you are grateful…

24th Annual Binational Health Week: Juntos por la prevención

24th Annual Binational Health Week: Juntos por la prevención

By: Jannette Nuñez

It’s that time of year again, the most wonderful time of the year -- No, I'm not referring to the holidays, but to Binational Health Week! Binational Health Week, a joint initiative between the…

Self-Care and Action: New Post-Election Resources in English and Spanish

Self-Care and Action: New Post-Election Resources in English and Spanish

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Many in our clinical network are experiencing stress and anxiety in the post-election world. As clinicians, we commit ourselves to serving everyone in our community – regardless of their…

Structural Change: Humanitarian Care Network Builds Comprehensive System to ID and Remove Migrant Health Inequities

Structural Change: Humanitarian Care Network Builds Comprehensive System to ID and Remove Migrant Health Inequities

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

A child with a seizure disorder who ran out of medication. A pregnant woman in her third trimester. A baby who is failing to thrive, with numerous undiagnosed conditions. Each of these people need…

MCN Position Statement: Immigration Status Questions Create Fear, May Result in Increased Morbidity and Mortality

MCN Position Statement: Immigration Status Questions Create Fear, May Result in Increased Morbidity and Mortality

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Migrant Clinicians Network opposes Texas Executive Order GA-46, which requires hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status in inpatient and emergency department facilities. This order…

Five on Friday: Misinformation and Farmworkers

Five on Friday: Misinformation and Farmworkers

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

We’re headed into the weekend once again, and, unsurprisingly, the staff of Migrant Clinicians Network had a lot to share this week! Here are five must-reads that MCNers offer to you. Kaethe…

Amy K. Liebman, MPA, Receives Shelley Davis Humanitarian Award for Contributions to Farmworker Communities

Amy K. Liebman, MPA, Receives Shelley Davis Humanitarian Award for Contributions to Farmworker Communities

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

This week, Amy K. Liebman, MPA, Chief Program Officer of Workers, Environment, and Climate, received the Shelley Davis Humanitarian Award as part of the 24th Annual Legacy Awards presented by…

Voting is a Health Justice Issue! How Community Health Centers Can Improve Health Outcomes by Encouraging the Community to be Civically Engaged

Voting is a Health Justice Issue! How Community Health Centers Can Improve Health Outcomes by Encouraging the Community to be Civically Engaged

By: Kaethe Weingarten

On November 5, 2024, it is projected that 244 million US citizens will be eligible to vote for national, state, and local candidates running for elected office to serve their constituents.…

Neurolinguistics, Migration, and Language Diversity: A Primer for National Hispanic Heritage Month

Neurolinguistics, Migration, and Language Diversity: A Primer for National Hispanic Heritage Month

By: Jessica Calderón

When fleeing conflict, escaping environmental crises, or seeking better economic opportunities, migrants bring their languages with them—a vital aspect of their identity that shapes how they see…

Migrant Clinicians Network Named as One of Fierce 50 Honorees of 2024

Migrant Clinicians Network Named as One of Fierce 50 Honorees of 2024

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) announced today that it has been named by Fierce Life Sciences and Fierce Healthcare as one of 2024’s Fierce 50 honorees in the Social Impact category. The Fierce…

How Migrant Clinicians Network Supports Clinicians: Share Your Story

How Migrant Clinicians Network Supports Clinicians: Share Your Story

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

If you love Migrant Clinicians Network’s efforts, then please tell your story! Migrant Clinicians Network invites our constituents – clinicians, migrants and immigrants, clinical support staff,…

A Summer of Health: Keeping Up with the Ventanillas

A Summer of Health: Keeping Up with the Ventanillas

By: Jannette Nuñez

Migrant Clinicians Network is well known for our extensive health trainings and support that we provide across the nation – but we are also committed to providing health and wellness resources and…

Five on Friday: Disaster Preparedness and Climate

Five on Friday: Disaster Preparedness and Climate

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Friday has arrived! This week’s edition of Five on Friday covers top-of-mind issues like the health impacts of disasters, wildfires, and heat on vulnerable groups. Give it a read before you head…

Words Matter: The Health Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Policies, and What Clinicians Can Do

Words Matter: The Health Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Policies, and What Clinicians Can Do

By: Kaethe Weingarten

“The 2024 election cycle is in full swing and along with it is a steady stream of rhetoric against immigration and immigrants themselves. For those of us who work with immigrants, whether or not…

Border Shut Down Endangers the Health of Migrants: Migrant Clinicians Network Statement

Border Shut Down Endangers the Health of Migrants: Migrant Clinicians Network Statement

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

This week, President Biden signed an executive order that significantly restricts the ability for people arriving at the US Southern border from asking for asylum. Under the order, no asylum…

Migrant Clinicians Network CEO Kim Nolte Recognized as 100 Most Influential People in Global Health in 2024

Migrant Clinicians Network CEO Kim Nolte Recognized as 100 Most Influential People in Global Health in 2024

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Congratulations to Kim Nolte, MPH, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Chief Executive Officer, for being named as one of the top 100 people in global health in 2024 by TIME Magazine, through their…

Humanitarian Care Access Network: Bringing the Most Vulnerable to Care

Humanitarian Care Access Network: Bringing the Most Vulnerable to Care

By: Robert Kinnaird

For decades, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) has worked for change at the US Southern border to ensure that people entering the country receive adequate health care. Health Network, our virtual…

Farmworker Awareness Week: New “Adults Get Vaccinated Too!” Resources in Spanish and English

Farmworker Awareness Week: New “Adults Get Vaccinated Too!” Resources in Spanish and English

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Every year, preventable illnesses harm migrant farmworkers because they have not had routine vaccines. Illnesses like tetanus, meningitis, COVID-19, and the flu can be prevented, or their severity…

In the Field: Navigating Wildfires, Heat, and COVID, Mary Jo Ybarra-Vega Turns to Connection and Community

In the Field: Navigating Wildfires, Heat, and COVID, Mary Jo Ybarra-Vega Turns to Connection and Community

By: Rushil Jain

Before the pandemic, we started getting really hot days in August, and then we started getting wildfires right in our area. It takes months for us to plan this back-to-school health fair event.…

How to Practice Love to Create a More Just Social Order? Jillian Hopewell Showed the Way.

How to Practice Love to Create a More Just Social Order? Jillian Hopewell Showed the Way.

By: Kaethe Weingarten

This Valentine’s Day, it occurred to me, as it did to others I read this month, that love isn’t just a feeling. It’s an action, a practice, it’s something we do. It’s odd to me that this has…

Remembering Jillian Hopewell: Health Justice Warrior

Remembering Jillian Hopewell: Health Justice Warrior

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

Illustration by Mario Puerta This week marks two months since the passing of Jillian Hopewell, MPA, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Chief Program Officer of Education and Communication. Jillian’s…

Elizabeth Gonzalez Ibarra: Helping Farmers and Farmworkers Live Healthier Lives

Elizabeth Gonzalez Ibarra: Helping Farmers and Farmworkers Live Healthier Lives

By: Robert Kinnaird

Elizabeth has demonstrated that there is no impossible case for her to deal with. She is also very dedicated to her work, always available for help, and willing to go the extra mile. I feel…

2023 Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award Winner, Deysi Merino-Gonzalez: Going Full Circle

2023 Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award Winner, Deysi Merino-Gonzalez: Going Full Circle

By: Sonia Alvarado

Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) is proud to announce Deysi Merino-Gonzalez as the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award. Named after Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM…

Verónica Martínez Vargas: A Dreamer Reaches her Dream of Becoming a Clinician

Verónica Martínez Vargas: A Dreamer Reaches her Dream of Becoming a Clinician

By: Amy Liebman

Dreams do come true. That is what I thought last week as I witnessed Verónica Martínez Vargas graduate from one of the country’s oldest Physician Assistant Studies program at the City University…

Celebrating a Year of Health and Community: Austin VdS by the Numbers

Celebrating a Year of Health and Community: Austin VdS by the Numbers

By: Jannette Nuñez

From vaccination clinics to specialized health screenings and educational sessions, the Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) in Austin, Texas has made a lasting impact on the well-being of the community.…

Unveiling Voices: Latinas Share Research Impacts at the Annual Women's Health Conference

Unveiling Voices: Latinas Share Research Impacts at the Annual Women's Health Conference

By: Parker Aguilera

Amidst the vibrancy of Migrant Clinicians Network's 8th Annual Women's Health Conference, I had the opportunity to sit down at a conference room table in a quiet part of the conference with 10…

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