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Then and Now: COVID Exacerbated Health Inequities, But Also Built Opportunities for Ongoing, Trusted, Culturally Contextual Public Health Responses

Then and Now: COVID Exacerbated Health Inequities, But Also Built Opportunities for Ongoing, Trusted, Culturally Contextual Public Health Responses

Jan 19, 2023
By: Amy Liebman
Migrant Clinicians Network is a national nonprofit dedicated to health justice. We have two primary audiences: the frontline clinicians who serve immigrants, and the immigrant and migrant…
Start Prescribing Paxlovid, Please! Immigrants & Migrants Need Access.

Start Prescribing Paxlovid, Please! Immigrants & Migrants Need Access.

Jan 11, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Paxlovid, the highly effective treatment against COVID infection, is underprescribed in the US, particularly for the underserved. For example, Hispanic populations were 30% less likely to be…
Five on Friday: Is it COVID, Flu or R.S.V.?

Five on Friday: Is it COVID, Flu or R.S.V.?

Jan 6, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
It’s 2023! We are barreling into the New Year with fresh dedication to pushing forward practical solutions to the biggest issues in migrant and immigrant health. One way we keep up to date on the…
Pediatric Care on the Border: Caring for Kids in Custody with Dr. Ayoub-Rodriguez

Pediatric Care on the Border: Caring for Kids in Custody with Dr. Ayoub-Rodriguez

Dec 19, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
When children in immigration detention get sick, where do they get help? United States Customs and Border Protection, (CBP, commonly known as the border patrol), does not have the facilities to…
How the Pandemic Amplified Longstanding Disparities for Immigrant Workers

How the Pandemic Amplified Longstanding Disparities for Immigrant Workers

Dec 15, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
The pandemic revealed many weaknesses in the US economy, but these weaknesses are longstanding compared to the time frame of the pandemic. “Essential workers,” a new class of workers defined by…
COVID Kills Almost 300 People A Day. To Save Lives, MCN Supports Hyperlocal Effective Campaigns.

COVID Kills Almost 300 People A Day. To Save Lives, MCN Supports Hyperlocal Effective Campaigns.

Dec 7, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When bivalent vaccines arrived in September, Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator claimed they represented "a really important moment in this pandemic." Days after its…
The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

Nov 23, 2022
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In rural upstate New York, a farmworker heads to the nearby primary care clinic. After check-in, a medical assistant helps him log in with his psychiatrist in the exam room. While the clinic can’…
Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Nov 8, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Roxana Pineda, Karen Mountain and Jimena De Leija In Austin, Texas, November 3, 2022 was officially declared Roxana Pineda Day, named after Migrant Clinicians Network’s longtime Ventanilla de…
Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Oct 27, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Across the United States, the Ventanillas de Salud (VdS) offices within the Mexican Consulates have been celebrating Binational Health Month, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the US to…
Partner Spotlight: Asylum Seekers Shelter, San Diego

Partner Spotlight: Asylum Seekers Shelter, San Diego

Oct 13, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
Image from Sheltering Hope documentary In San Diego, thousands of asylum seekers cross the border every month, looking for a safe haven where they can pursue a better life. Linda Hill, MD, MPH, the…
New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

Oct 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians focused on migrant, immigrant, and other underserved patients must balance personal and professional stressors for their entire careers – but the pandemic added new weight and complexity…
COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

Oct 6, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
Over the pandemic, despite numerous precautions, many MCN staff members have wrestled with COVID, myself included. Over the summer, as BA.5 became the predominant variant, several of us came down…
New Mini-Documentary Celebrates FQHC Vaccination Outreach in Puerto Rico and St. Croix

New Mini-Documentary Celebrates FQHC Vaccination Outreach in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Sep 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
As vaccines became available in US territories, numerous obstacles to vaccination arose, including gaps in infrastructure as a result of economic instability and natural disasters, and widespread…
Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Sep 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Nestled between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is the Delmarva peninsula, consisting of the state of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. Delmarva is home to diverse agricultural…
Still impacted by the pandemic, Immigrant workers share concerns about COVID-19

Still Impacted by the Pandemic, Immigrant Workers Share Concerns About COVID-19

Aug 16, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Hannia Benitez and her coworkers are concerned. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the staff at El Vinculo Hispano, a North Carolina nonprofit serving Hispanic communities, has…
Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Aug 4, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Long COVID’s impact can span across many areas of a sufferer's life, affecting their physical abilities, mental health, work, and interpersonal relationships. Yet for disenfranchised populations,…
American Rescue Plan & Workforce Summit: CHWs & Hyperlocal Campaigns Build COVID Health Equity

American Rescue Plan & Workforce Summit: CHWs & Hyperlocal Campaigns Build COVID Health Equity

Jul 28, 2022
By: Esther Pizza
MCN's Esther Rojas at the American Rescue Plan and Workforce Summit. Earlier this month, I had the honor and privilege of attending the American Rescue Plan and Workforce Summit hosted by the White…
Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Jul 21, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
I’m 75 years old and I cannot remember a period of time as packed with big changes out in the world I live in as those of the past seven years. The gut-wrenching, nerve-wracking, upsetting,…
US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

Jul 12, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Two weeks ago, 53 people lost their lives to excessive and grueling heat exposure when their smuggler abandoned the semitruck in which they were traveling in the heat in San Antonio. This…
Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Jul 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did not permit health care providers to pre-order COVID vaccines for children between the ages of six months and four years. Last week, however, the state…
Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Jun 23, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
When I was a freshman in college, the father of a friend with whom I had gone to elementary school died. My mother wrote me a letter – parents wrote letters to their children when they lived away…
Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Jun 14, 2022
By: MCN Admin
The Black Belt is a region of the southeast US that is defined socially, economically, and geographically by the expanse of highly fertile black soil. Following the abolition of chattel slavery,…
Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Prepare for Future Emergencies

Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Preparing for Future Emergencies

Jun 2, 2022
By: Myrellis Muñiz Márquez
In August 2020, only five months after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Puerto Rico, the first pandemic school-year calendar was published. It left out one of the most important items all…
Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

May 26, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
The impact of the pandemic on so many people in so many different communities has been immense. I wrote about grief in a blog in May 2021 and, a year later, the need to attend to the subject…
Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

May 11, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Their stories are harrowing. The murder of children, and death threats at home. No work, no crops, no food. Unavoidable violence and a feeling that the only way to get to safety is to flee home.…
Peletah Ministries members gathered

Partner Spotlight: Peletah Ministries

May 5, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Health Worker (CHW) safety has increasingly been highlighted as a topic of concern. Over the span of MCN’s many COVID-19 learning…