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Farmworkers in line for vaccination

Funding Cuts for COVID Care, Testing, & Vaccination for Uninsured Threatens Lives & Increases Disparities for Food & Farmworkers

March 31, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor’s Note: It’s César Chávez Day, and the end of National Farmworker Awareness Week. Are you aware of the health risks that food and farmworkers are still taking to plant, tend, harvest, and...
FWAF staff

Organizaciones destacadas: Nuestros socios en Florida

March 15, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Nota del editor: Desde julio de 2021 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN), La Coalición Rural (CR) y 20 organizaciones...
Preguntas frecuentes: La vacuna COVID-19 y migrantes, inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas

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

March 3, 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...
Partner Spotlight: Lideres Campesinas of California

Organización destacada: Líderes Campesinas de California

February 22, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Nota del editor: Desde julio de 2021 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), La Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN), La Coalición Rural (CR) y 20 organizaciones...
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...
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Hope and Celebration: Top Six MCN Blogs of 2021

December 29, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The end of the year presents opportunities for growth and reflection around future goals and visions. Here at Migrant Clinicians Network, we gather (this year, virtually) during the first few weeks...
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...
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 truck sprays pesticide on a field

Chlorpyrifos Ban Will Protect Farmworker Childrens' Health, But A Full Ban Is Still Needed

August 25, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the ban of the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops. Migrant Clinicians Network celebrates the long-overdue ban of this dangerous...
A hand picking a tomato

From Streamline: Hunger Hits Those Who Produce Our Food

August 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Jillian Hopewell [Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has exposed the dangerous working conditions, low wages, and lack of worker protection that agricultural workers have endured for decades. In part because...
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...
A machine spraying pesticide in orchard

Long Path to Nationwide Ban: Chlorpyrifos and Farmworker Health

May 5, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, after years of effort from environmental health and farmworker advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to essentially ban...
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...
Farmworker sprays pesticide

MCN Joins Lawsuit to Stop Trump Administration’s Rollback of AEZ, A Critical Pesticide Rule

January 5, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory standard that protects farmworkers from pesticide poisoning. But the Trump Administration has actively worked...
Foodworkers on the line at a packaging facility

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

December 21, 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

December 17, 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...
Farmworker moves a crate of corn

Photovoice: Migrant Farmworkers, Sharing Their Lives Through Photography

December 2, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
[Editor’s Note: Robyne Hayes recently partnered with Migrant Clinicians Network on the Tu voz importa/Your Voice Matters project. Read more about the project here. In this blog post, Robyne shares...
A vehicle spraying pesticides on a field

EPA Weakens Pesticide Standards; Endangers Health of Rural Communities

November 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled back a critical safeguard for farmworker health: the application exclusion zone, or AEZ. The AEZ is an important part of the Worker...
Farmworkers load a truck

MCN’s Liebman and Dr. Madaras: Health Disparities, Barriers Increase Farmworkers’ Risk of COVID-19

October 22, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
 On Tuesday, two staff members from Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) presented to the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (NACMH) on farmworker health in the midst of the pandemic. The day...
Campesinos sin Fronteras

Fortalecimiento de capacidades en salud ocupacional: Campesinos sin Fronteras y la Ventanilla de Salud de Yuma, AZ

October 21, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Por Rose Guerra, Betsabe Ruiz and Idolina Castro[Nota de la editora: Como parte de nuestra celebración del Mes de la Salud Binacional, presentamos esta publicación de Campesinos Sin Fronteras y la...
Farmworkers in the field with heavy smoke in the sky

Wildfires and COVID-19: When Disasters Overlap, Agricultural Workers Struggle

October 13, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Photo: United Farm Workers For almost two months, wildfires have suffocated the Northern California sky. A dry mid-August lightning storm ignited thousands of fires, many of which grew rapidly in the...
Paulina Cortes, a community activist from San Jose, gives a protective particulate mask to a farmworker in Stockton, California, on November 16th, 2018.

Esencial: proteger a los trabajadores agrícolas del humo de los incendios forestales en California – y a los trabajadores de la salud de primera línea de la COVID-19 – con respiradores

October 7, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Esta semana, cuando los incendios ardían en California, ennegreciendo los cielos y lloviendo ceniza en los cultivos maduros, la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de California (CalOSHA...