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Preguntas frecuentes: La vacuna COVID-19 y migrantes, inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas

Preguntas frecuentes: La vacuna COVID-19 y migrantes, inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas

Enero 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN por sus siglas en inglés) continúa recibiendo preguntas de nuestros miembros y las comunidades de migrantes, inmigrantes y trabajadores...
A nurse speaking with Afghan refugees

10 Steps to Provide Trauma-Informed Care for Afghan Refugees

Septiembre 9, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are arriving across the US – and all of them will receive a health assessment in the coming weeks. Once they arrive on US soil, Afghan families are connected to...
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

Junio 6, 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...
Funding Opportunity to Prevent COVID-19 in Refugee, Immigrant, & Migrant Communities

Funding Opportunity to Prevent COVID-19 in Refugee, Immigrant, & Migrant Communities

Mayo 5, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A new funding opportunity is now available for local health departments and community-based organizations to assist these groups to reach refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities to prevent and...
Community health Worker speaking to participants

Serving Refugees, Immigrants, & Migrants When Virtual Isn't Possible: A COVID-19 Outreach Event Checklist

Enero 1, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
 The challenges of reaching refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities (RIM communities) have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. During a time when it is even more apparent that communicating...
Presiden Biden giving a speech

President Biden's New Immigration Plan: Ambitious, Detailed, Hopeful

Enero 1, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Timothy Dunn, Immigration Scholar and Professor of Sociology at Salisbury University[Editor's Note: President Biden quickly pivoted to address immigration policy within the first hours of his...
A man being vaccinated by clinician

Top Six COVID-19 Resources for Vaccine Readiness for Immigrant and Migrant Communities

Enero 1, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinics, health centers, and health departments around the country are looking ahead to the vaccination of essential worker populations like farmworkers, who in many states are eligible for...
An asylum seeker walks along the border

Take Action: Rescind Order to Halt Asylum Processes

Abril 4, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, Migrant Clinicians Network joined Doctors for America, Refugee Health Alliance, and Human Impact Partners to demand that Robert R. Redfield, MD, the Director of Centers for Disease Control...
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on the webinar for providers of support for Camp Fire survivors

Camp Fire Response and Recovery: A Snapshot of Community Providers’ Perspectives

Febrero 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on a webinar for those who provide support or services to Camp Fire survivors.[Editor’s Note: In November 2018, Northern California's Camp Fire...
A truck loaded with supplies donated for those impacted by the earthquakes

Actualización desde Puerto Rico: Terremotos Exponen Necesidades Preexistentes en las Comunidades

Enero 1, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
[Nota del editor: Esta es la tercera actualización por parte de Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, Gerente de Programas en Puerto Rico desde San Juan, Puerto Rico, donde la actividad sísmica continúa...
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX.

A Six-Year-Old Asylum Seeker with Microcephaly and Frequent Seizures Struggles to Get Emergency Care, So Health Network Steps In

Enero 1, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX.[Editor’s Note: In the last two years, along the US-Mexico border, Migrant Clinicians Network has...
MCN's Updated Mission and Vision

Anuncio de la Misión y Visión actualizadas de MCN

Diciembre 12, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Desde 1984, la Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN por sus siglas en inglés), ha trabajado incansablemente en la construcción de soluciones prácticas en la intersección entre...
People stand on ridge holding hands with sun above

Helping the Helpers: Tools for Trauma and Self-Care in the Wake of the Camp Fire

Diciembre 12, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Photo by Karl Hoffmann][Editor’s Note: MCN’s California office was established in Chico in 2000 and serves as the hub of education and communication for the organization. In June of this year, MCN...
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian Border

Dr. Madaras: A Refugee’s First Thanksgiving

Noviembre 11, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian border while traveling in 2019.Fifty years ago, after a year living as refugees, the family of Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, finally arrived in Bangor, Maine...
People waiting in line at a detention center

Rosa, A Child with Symptoms of Psychosis, Was In Detention. Medical Review for Immigrants Helped Her Get Out, and Into Emergency Care.

Noviembre 11, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Rosa* is a young child with cerebral palsy. Like thousands of other children, she had crossed with her family into the US seeking asylum, and was brought to a detention facility. At the detention...
Asylum seekers in an overcrowded detention center

One Doctor’s Path to Serve Asylum Seekers: “Seeking safety and asylum in the United States should not result in inhumane, dangerous incarceration”

Octubre 10, 2019
By: Kate Sugarman
[Overcrowding of families observed by the Office of the Inspector General on June 10, 2019, at Border Patrol’s McAllen, TX, Station.][Editor’s Note: Kate Sugarman, MD, is a family physician in...
Woman stands with her baby and daughter

Comunicado de MCN: Nuevas políticas migratorias ponen en peligro la salud y seguridad de los migrantes

Septiembre 9, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Un padre guatemalteco y su hija fueron retenidos por secuestradores en Ciudad Juárez durante los fechas en que fueron sus audiencias en Estados Unidos, a principios de julio, por tanto ordenaron su...
Mike Seifert points at lists of names of those waiting to be called to cross border legally

Perspective from the Border: Mike Seifert

Septiembre 9, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
[Mike Seifert looks at list of names of immigrants waiting to cross the border.][Editor’s Note: It’s difficult to get a good sense of what’s happening on the border. That’s because it’s rapidly...
CBP officer lets detainees out of holding area.

Is Medical Protocol at Border Patrol Facilities Sufficient?

Septiembre 9, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
 Who is responsible for the health and wellbeing of refugee-seeking families in detention at the US-Mexico border? At least three children have died of influenza while in Customs and Border...
Asylum seeker sits on the Mexican side of the border

En el otro lado: los inmigrantes centroamericanos en la frontera norte de México

Agosto 8, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
(This image is licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció a fines de mayo de este año su decisión de imponer nuevos...
Position Statement: Children Should Never Be Held in Detention

Declaración de posición de MCN: Los niños nunca deben permanecer detenidos

Agosto 8, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
[Photo provided by Custom and Border Protection to reporter on tour of detention facility in McAllen, Texas.]La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN) se opone rotundamente a...
MCN CEO Karen Mountain and Board Member Marsha Griffin at the border

"People Are Just Trying to Survive": MCN's Dr. Laszlo Madaras Reflects After Returning from the Border

Julio 7, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
July is a time of reflection for Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Migrant Clinicians Network. A quarter-century ago, in July, 1994, he traveled to Rwanda to serve the urgent health...
Woman looks out from under umbrella

Ghettoization of the Migrant Population: Perspective from Dr. John Ghertner

Junio 6, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
John Ghertner, MD, has been living and working as a physician for the migrant community in the Finger Lakes region of New York State since around 1980.  His integration into the community -- he says...
MCN Statement: Detention Facilities are Inappropriate for Children

Declaración de MCN: Los centros de detención no son apropiados para los niños

Mayo 5, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
 Las muertes repetidas y evitables de niños migrantes en detención son inadmisibles. Nosotros, en Migrant Clinicians Network, exigimos la implementación inmediata de salvaguardas más adecuadas y...
Man and child look through border fence

The US-Mexico Border Then and Now, with Timothy Dunn

Abril 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(This image is licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode) “Historically, we’re nowhere near the levels we were, at the turn of the century,” noted Timothy Dunn, Professor...
Child looks at border fence

From the Border: Refugees and Their Health Needs, with Dr. Marsha Griffin

Abril 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
What’s happening at the border bridges?Dr. Griffin explains that, typically, an immigrant who wishes to seek asylum approaches the center of a walking bridge that crosses the Rio Grande to the US and...