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“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services.” -- Article 25, UN Declaration of Human Rights This week is Human Rights Week, which commemorates the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Access to health care is a human right – yet millions of... Read More
In a year defined by health inequities and limited health care access, the push for health justice remains crucial to Migrant Clinicians Network’s work. MCN’s Kugel and Zuroweste Health Justice Award serves to celebrate the work of migrant clinicians who are actively engaged in the fight for health justice. This month, MCN hosted an awards ceremony to celebrate Caroline Johnson, FNP, Clinical... Read More
Welcome to Five on Friday, where we at Migrant Clinicians Network share the top five articles, resources, and announcements of the week with you, our readers. As we tumble into the last month of this unprecedented year, our Five on Friday selections continue to be dominated by COVID-19. Amy shared the new Urban Institute report, “How Risk of Exposure to the Coronavirus at Work Varies... Read More
[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 the backdrop of the project. Support this project and many others by donating to MCN during our End-of-the-Year Giving campaign to show support for #HeroesOnTheFrontline. Please visit our GoFundMe page... Read More
[Editor’s Note: Here, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Chief Medical Officer, Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, shares his encounters with AIDS as a doctor, from Africa to the US, to commemorate World AIDS Day and to reflect on one of his #HeroesOnTheFrontline, Dr. Jonathan Mann. Today, Migrant Clinicians Network celebrates #HeroesOnTheFrontline like Dr. Mann, as well as Dr. Madaras, who has been serving... Read More
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach[Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Caroline Johnson! Support our #HeroesOnTheFrontline like Caroline through Migrant Clinicians Network’s #GivingTuesday campaign here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/support-heroesonthefrontline.]In a year where the news has often ranged from difficult to grim, it is particularly... Read More
While Thanksgiving looked different for many of us this year, for some, it is too much the same: millions of food workers across the US are still toiling in fields, farms, orchards, packing houses, and slaughterhouses with few worker protections, in dangerous working conditions, and for poverty wages. This year, many are working in conditions that have led to the rampant spread of COVID-19, as a... Read More
Five on Friday is a roundup of new research, articles, resources, and more on health justice and migrant health that our MCN team recommends. Here’s this week’s edition: Amy shared Earth Island Journal’s “Nature Is Trying to Tell Us Something,” which looks at how one physician is trying to “bridge the gap between medicine and the environment.”Claire recommended the new COVID-19 Testing... Read More
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach[Editor’s Note: Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Too many people have died because of violence against trans people, and many more struggle with poor health as a result of lack of access to trans-competent health care. In this blog post, MCN’s Ashley-Michelle Papon discusses the health barriers that many trans people... Read More
By Diana Cañas, MCN InternEarlier this month, the sixth annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the General Consulate of Mexico in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network, was virtual. In total, 68 women gathered together on Zoom to hear from guest speakers, with another almost 600 people watching from Facebook, either live or recorded. María Limón, a public speaker from... Read More
