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Happy Friday! Another week rapidly comes to a close. Here, we offer up five pieces that you might have missed, offered by MCN staff.Claire noted that Type 2 Diabetes is one of four factors that increase the risk of long COVID, as reported in this New York Times article. New Research Hints at 4 Factors that May Increase Changes of Long COVIDAníbal recommended a new research article showing that a... Read More
[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221 community health outreach workers across 20 states and Puerto Rico to encourage vaccination within Black, Indigenous, and people of color rural communities through a learning collaborative. Funded by an $8.1... Read More
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to assist the surgeon with an 11-year-old girl who was in an automobile accident and was thrown through the front windshield of her parents’ car. Unfortunately, there was nothing much we could do... Read More
Friday is here! A relaxing weekend awaits -- for those of us who work M-F, that is. For those whose weekend falls elsewhere, no need to wait, you can read Five on Friday now, to help you get caught up in migrant health justice! Here are this week’s offerings, sent in by MCN staff members.Giovanni shared the most recent podcast episode from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,... Read More
[Editor’s Note: In this month’s Witness to Witness blog post, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, Director of Witness to Witness, offers us perspective on uncertainty. Visit Witness to Witness page here. You can also sign up for MCN’s four-part online seminar series entitled, “Managing Stress in Challenging Times,” a professional development and peer support program for health care workers on our Upcoming... Read More
[Editor’s Note: Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) is a network of health outreach programs operating out of each of the Mexican Consulates in the US. Migrant Clinicians Network has been a longtime advisor to the entire VdS network and the fiscal agent of three VdS offices in Texas: Austin, Del Rio, and Eagle Pass. Here, we hear from the largest of the three, the Ventanilla de Salud in Austin.]In... Read More
With Omicron cases still spiking, it’s no wonder that the articles we shared internally this week at MCN were mostly about COVID. But there are other health news that we shared as well -- actually, four of five offerings this week aren’t directly related to COVID! Have a look at five pieces we think you’d like to read, offered by MCN staff.Esther shared the big (COVID-related) news from yesterday... Read More
[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition (RC) and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221 community health outreach workers across 20 states and Puerto Rico to encourage vaccination within Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) rural communities through a learning collaborative. Funded by... Read More
Happy New Year from Migrant Clinicians Network! We have lots of work to do in 2022 in health justice. Here are a few resources, recommended by MCN staff, to help us push forward.Kaethe sent around three new Viewpoint articles published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association that propose a new national COVID-19 strategy (which you can access here, here, and here). Robert... Read More
[Editor’s Note: Since July 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alianza), Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition (RC) and 20 organizational partners and members have mobilized 221 community health outreach workers across 20 states and Puerto Rico to encourage vaccination within Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) rural communities through a learning collaborative. Funded by... Read More
