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Occupational Health and Safety

Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Organización destacada: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Enero 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Nota del editor: Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN), La Coalición Rural (CR) y 20 organizaciones colaboradoras y miembros han...
A volunteer holding a sign for vaccination

Organización destacada: Asociación de Cooperativas del Estado de Alabama

Enero 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Nota del editor: Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN), La Coalición Rural (CR) y 20 organizaciones colaboradoras y miembros han...
Remembering Don Villarejo

Remembering Don Villarejo

Diciembre 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
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...
How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

Diciembre 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Jenna Feinauer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Dr Ivette Ruiz, MS-HSBP, Healing by Growing Farms LLCAlthough the frequency of mental illnesses among migrants varies, all migrants are subject to...
Clinicians Standing together

How to De-Escalate a Tense Interaction

Noviembre 11, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor’s Note: The Fall 2021 issue of Streamline is now arriving at mailboxes – yes, those physical boxes that receive paper – across the country! You can read the entire issue, which features...
MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana: Devoted to Serve Climate-Impacted Workers, Mobilizing Rural Puerto Rican Communities to Protect the Most Vulnerable

Marysel Pagán Santana de MCN: dedicada a servir a los trabajadores afectados por el clima, movilizando a las comunidades rurales puertorriqueñas para proteger a los más vulnerables

Noviembre 11, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
La semana pasada, 140 personas de todo el país se sumaron a una reunión virtual de la Asociación Americana de Salud Pública (APHA, por sus siglas en inglés) para homenajear a los promotores de la...
A person holding a vaccination record card

¿Incluir el alias? ¿Omitir el nombre real? Recomendaciones para la tarjeta de vacunación de COVID-19

Noviembre 11, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Los nombres pueden ser algo complejo para los trabajadores inmigrantes y migrantes. Estos trabajadores a menudo deben utilizar un seudónimo o alias en los lugares de trabajo, ya que pueden carecer de...
A person wearing protective helmet drinks water

Extreme Heat Is a Killer. A New Federal Initiative Prioritizes Worker Health and Safety.

Octubre 10, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Kathleen Rest, Executive Director of Union of Concerned Scientists[Editor’s Note: At the end of September, Kathleen Rest published this post on The Equation, the blog for the Union of Concerned...
A farmworker in the field

Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard

Septiembre 9, 2021
By: 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...
A farmworker in a facemask in the field

Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health

Septiembre 9, 2021
By: 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...
A worker in a facemask

La exigencia de vacunación contra el COVID-19 por parte de los empleadores debe ir acompañada de protecciones básicas y adaptaciones para los trabajadores

Septiembre 9, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Durante el primer año de la pandemia, las plantas de empaque de carne, granjas, huertos y bodegas de alimentos se convirtieron en focos de transmisión del virus ya que se requería que los...
Person working with window open

Migrant Clinicians Network Reveals Ventilation Checklist for Safe Workplaces

Agosto 8, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Robert KinnairdAs COVID-19 primarily spreads through the air, workplaces with poor ventilation are among the most endangered by the virus. To address the problems poor ventilation can create, even...
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 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Inc.; and Amy Liebman, MPA, MCN’s Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, at PACT 2021.

MCN Brings Much-Needed Farmworker, Clinician Perspectives to Pesticide Conference

Julio 7, 2021
By: 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...
Farmworkers in the field

El Cambio climático, el calor y los trabajadores al aire libre: Nueva guía para los proveedores de servicios de salud sobre las enfermedades relacionadas con el calor

Julio 7, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Hace calor – y cada vez hace aún más calor. El cambio climático está aumentando el número de días de calor extremo en todo Estados Unidos. Este aumento en el calor es peligroso para los trabajadores...
Warehouse workers wearing masks move boxes

Position Statement: Mask Guidance Leaves Some Workers Vulnerable to Infection

Mayo 5, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their mask guidance to allow fully vaccinated individuals to resume most indoor and outdoor activities without wearing masks or...
A construction worker

Workers Memorial Day: COVID-19 Lifts Veil on Workplace Hazards

Abril 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor's Note: Today is Workers Memorial Day, established to recognize workers who died or suffered from exposures to hazards at work.]Fifty years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Act...
Tome la encuesta 2021 de MCN: ¿Qué está cambiando para los pacientes migrantes e inmigrantes?

Tome la encuesta 2021 de MCN: ¿Qué está cambiando para los pacientes migrantes e inmigrantes?

Abril 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Un estudio reciente muestra que, desde que el expresidente Trump empezó con la retórica antiinmigrante en su campaña presidencial, los inmigrantes y migrantes que carecen de autorización para vivir y...
A vehicle spraying pesticides on a field

MCN’s Ed Zuroweste Asks NY to Ban Chlorpyrifos

Abril 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor’s Note: Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate pesticide that has been shown to cause neurodevelopmental damage in children, including reduced birth weight, reduced IQ, and delayed mental and...
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

Febrero 2, 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, immigrant,...
An agricultural worker harvesting apples

Planning, Partnerships, and Perseverance: Overcoming Challenges on the COVID-19 Frontlines

Febrero 2, 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 for...
Laszlo Madaras and colleague in PPE

750 COVID-19 Patients Later, A One-Year Milestone

Febrero 2, 2021
By: Laszlo Madaras
By Dr. Laszlo Madaras[Note from Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, MCN's Director of Witness to Witness: Here, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Laszlo Madaras writes to the staff of Migrant Clinicians Network,...
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

Enero 1, 2021
By: Laszlo Madaras
By: Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH[Editor’s Note: Hundreds, if not thousands, of frontline clinicians in our clinical network have received their initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Many took selfies as...
A clinician vaccinates a patient

Position Statement: Everyone Needs an Opportunity to Be Vaccinated

Enero 1, 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...
A teacher prepares for the school year

¿Por qué la implementación de programas comprensivos de salud ocupacional de personal escolar es esencial para una reapertura segura de las escuelas?: Un resumen de nuestro más reciente programa de adiestramientos en Puerto Rico.

Enero 1, 2021
By: Marysel Pagán Santana
Por: Marysel Pagán-Santana, DrPH, Gerente Principal de Programas en Puerto RicoUno de los temas de discusión pública que más se ha repetido en Puerto Rico y alrededor del mundo es la apertura de las...
Foodworkers on the line at a packaging facility

Prioritizing Farmworkers and Other Essential Food Workers for the COVID-19 Vaccine

Diciembre 12, 2020
By: 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 the...
Farmworkers harvest in orchard

Partnering Through the Pandemic: Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program’s Fight Against COVID-19

Diciembre 12, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Earlier this year, Melanie Finkenbinder, MD, shared the best practices that Keystone Health, a health center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was using to fight COVID-19 in migrant agricultural worker...