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A clinician wearing ppe in the hospital

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

February 17, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor’s Note: In this monthly blog post, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, provides stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these...
Workers lay pavement

Heat Stress: Where Health Inequity Meets Climate Change

February 16, 2022
By: cseda
In January, Colorado became the latest state to adopt heat stress regulations to protect farmworkers and other outdoor workers from the higher temperatures and more frequent heat events that are the...
Farmers installing irrigation equipment in the dark

Overtime Pay: Why Are Farmworkers Excluded?

February 10, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the New York State Wage Board passed three resolutions that will finally provide overtime for farmworkers working for more than 40 hours a week. The resolutions also delineate a ten-year...
Partner Spotlight: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

Organización destacada: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

January 4, 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

January 4, 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

December 22, 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

December 16, 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

November 18, 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

November 2, 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

November 1, 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.

October 4, 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

September 15, 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

September 7, 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

September 7, 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

August 2, 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

July 29, 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

July 8, 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

May 26, 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

April 28, 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?

April 27, 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

April 13, 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

February 18, 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

February 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 for...
Laszlo Madaras and colleague in PPE

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

February 2, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
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

January 20, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
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

January 12, 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...