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When A Helper Needs Help: Caring for Health Care Workers During COVID

Apr 27, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
The last few months have seen a flurry, almost a blizzard, of articles on the pandemic’s toll on health care workers, in the form of research, newspaper articles, TV coverage, social media…
MCN's 2021 Impact Report

Building Health Equity: MCN’s Impact in 2021

Apr 21, 2022
By: MCN Admin
This week, Migrant Clinicians Network released its 2021 Impact Report, highlighting several key programs and initiatives, in which MCN pushed for health justice in 2021. The report outlines MCN’s…
Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCN’s Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Paulina Segovia, PA-C, RDN, Recipient of MCN’s Second Annual Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Apr 15, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Paulina Segovia, PA, RDN, is only in her second year as a physician’s assistant at Tepeyac Community Health Center in Denver, CO – but she is already making a significant impact on her community.…
Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Apr 7, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
A new paper describing health care worker COVID-19 vaccine confidence and acceptance shows that clinicians who work with immigrant communities were more vaccine acceptant. In Healthcare worker…
Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Apr 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Following years of disinvestment in US public health and social services, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the mounting systemic racial inequity, poverty, and unequal access to…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras provides a check-up to a child held by their parent

Celebrating the Value of Underrepresented Voices: MacKenzie Scott Announces MCN Gift

Mar 24, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Dr. Laszlo Madaras, Chief Medical Officer at MCN, meets with migrants at a shelter in McAllen, Texas. At Migrant Clinicians Network, we have dedicated our lives to raising up the voices of migrants…
People pushing a van out of a rut

I’m in a Rut. What Can I do About It?

Mar 17, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
What exactly is a rut? A rut is a pattern of behavior or of the fabric of one’s life that is so familiar that it feels boring and unproductive. Many people have started to feel – or have been…
FWAF staff

Partner Spotlight: Our Partners in Florida

Mar 15, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For rural health initiatives, partnership and collaboration are vital tools for getting people vaccinated and meeting the needs of communities where these initiatives operate. In Florida, many…
Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019.

In Memoriam: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Feb 22, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Dr. Paul Farmer with MCN’s Luis Retta at University of Texas in 2019. This week, the world lost one of its most vocal and effective champions of health equity, Paul Farmer, MD, PhD. Dr. Farmer is…
A clinician wearing ppe in the hospital

We Hear You: Opening Ourselves to What Health Care Workers Are Feeling Now

Feb 17, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the end of last year, Dr. Nirav Shah, the Director of Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, mentioned a cartoon he had seen of a patient in a hospital bed being kept afloat by a…
Clinician speaking with patient

Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras

Jan 25, 2022
By: Laszlo Madaras
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to…
Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Jan 18, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In December, Roxana Pineda, MPH, Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) Coordinator and Health Network Associate for Migrant Clinicians Network, was getting ready to open yet another weekly vaccination event at…
A mother and child receive supplies from clinician

Climate-Impacted Communities Deserve Better, with Myrellis Muñiz-Márquez

Dec 28, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The climate crisis is constantly transforming the world as we know it. Alterations in climate patterns that previously took centuries to develop are now evident in only decades or even less.…
Asylum-seeking Children deserve better

Asylum-Seeking Children Deserve Better – Giving Tuesday 2021

Nov 29, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Most of the children who arrive in the US to seek asylum with their families are healthy, which is pretty miraculous, considering the grueling and long journeys the families often take, sometimes…
Giving Thanks, Building Better Worlds

Giving Thanks, Building Better Worlds: MCN Reflects on Thanksgiving

Nov 23, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
As we gather around the dinner table to give thanks and share a meal, many of us will be missing the presence of a loved one who has passed, who is too sick to join at the table, who is too far…
People in masks talk about materials

Tips for Making the Most of Interpreters and Interpretation Hotlines

Sep 8, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Interpreters and interpretation hotlines are key tools for clinicians when they do not share a common language with their patients. While interpreters may work full time or part time in the office…
Clinicians in PPE

Nominate a Clinician for the 2021 Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award Before September 15th

Sep 2, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians serving marginalized communities are stressed. Their work -- serving people who often have overlapping and complicated barriers to maintaining their health and accessing health care -- has…
A person receiving a vaccination

Delta Variant & COVID-19 Vaccines: Updated Information and Resources

Aug 17, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Robert KinnairdThe Delta variant has become the prominent form of the virus, with around 83 percent of COVID-19 cases in the United States being caused by this more contagious variant. First found…
Take MCN’s 2021 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

MCN’s 5-Minute Poll: Inform Our Work, Voice Your Concerns, and Win a $25 Target Gift Card!

Jun 15, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Trump Administration was regularly cited as a root cause for migrant and immigrant patients to avoid getting the health care they needed – according to clinicians who have taken Migrant…
A photo of the US Mexico border

Asylum Seekers, Health Needs, Concertina Wire… and Hope: A View of the Entire US-Mexico Border, From the Health Provider’s Perspective

Jun 9, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the end of May, Deliana Garcia headed to the US-Mexico border – not just to visit one border town, but to travel the entire length of the border on the US side, from San Diego, California to…
CHWs speak with farmworkers

COVID-19 From the Perspective of a Community Health Worker: Veronica Martinez Vargas

May 27, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
COVID-19 has resulted in changes and struggles in our lives that most of us were not prepared for or expected. This includes dealing with illness, the loss of loved ones, mental health struggles…
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…
An associate calling a mobile patient

Winter Streamline: Strategies for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During the Pandemic

Mar 30, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
IPV and COVID-19 Intimate partner violence is the physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse, according to the CDC. A recent…
Bottles of COVID-19 Vaccine

Q&A: One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Expands Opportunities to Prevent Death & Severe Disease

Feb 25, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Within the coming days or weeks, the FDA is expected to give emergency use authorization for the manufacture and sale of Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine. The new vaccine is largely…
A clinician vaccinates an older man

Reprint Q&A: What PCPs Need to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines

Feb 24, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Raghavendra Tirupathi, MD, FACP; Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, FAAFP; Ali Rabaan, PhD; and Prasannalaxmi Palabindela, MD The CDC estimates that, as of Jan. 5, more than 4.8 million people in the United…
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…