- Who We Are
- Clinician Employment
- Publications
- Witness to Witness (W2W)
- Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award
- Your Voice Matters: Photovoice Project
Five on Friday: Meet Maria Moreno, the First Farm Worker Woman in America To Be Hired As A Union Organizer
It can be a challenge to select just five pieces to highlight each week. Here are some of the articles that we bet you haven’t seen yet this week -- and we think you’ll enjoy them and maybe find them useful in your own work in health justice. Pull up a chair, grab some tea, and dive in to this week’s Five on Friday: Meet Maria Moreno: The First Farm Worker Woman in America To Be... Read More
Jessica, Leonardo and Cinthia. The Puerto RIco Diabetes team from PR Health Department This year, Migrant Clinicians Network’s ECHO series on diabetes has brought together dozens of health centers’ community health workers (CHWs) to share tools and tactics, learn about the most recent research, and network to bring down A1C numbers around the country. Through this series, sponsored by the... Read More
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Migrants and immigrants experience barriers to getting important preventative screenings, and perceptions around screenings may worsen the likelihood that they follow through even if they do have access. Yet, without those screenings, many immigrants are diagnosed too late for treatments to be successful. MCN’s cancer resources page provides... Read More
Austin’s famous nightlife -- think South by Southwest, or the X Games -- fuels a thriving hospitality industry that employs thousands of workers at hotels spattered across the city. Alma Galván, MCH, Senior Program Manager for MCN, says maintenance and cleaning workers in hotels are one group of workers that is regularly exposed to chemicals on the job -- and those workers’ health is at... Read More
Illustration by Jessica Johnson Two years ago, Juan,* a sixteen-year-old farmworker, was tasked to apply pesticides to a field of tobacco in North Carolina. Juan mixed and applied the pesticides with a backpack sprayer for several days. When he returned home, Juan suffered with severe nausea and dizziness, common symptoms from acute pesticide poisoning. Other typical symptoms include... Read More
Last week, MCN’s Deliana Garcia, Director of International Projects and Emerging Issues, joined dozens of population health researchers for a multi-day summit at The University of Texas Dell Medical School entitled, “Puentes: Advancing Population Health Research,” focused on population health on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. Mexican health institutes joined UT Austin researchers... Read More
Friday is once again tugging on our brains, luring us into the weekend before 5pm… What are your plans this weekend? Care to add a little bit of health reading into the mix? Here are five recommendations from MCN staff. A side effect of tuberculosis in India: crippling debt Candace, Specialist in Clinical Systems & Women’s Health, forwarded on “two TB articles --... Read More
[Editor’s note: Alyssa Finley is MCN’s environmental and occupational health intern at the Salisbury, Maryland office. Finley is a senior at Salisbury University’s School of Social Work. Here, she gives us a glimpse into our post-webinar data collection world.] With the change in weather, there also comes a change in workload. Spring brings with it the hammering of nails and sounds of... Read More
We at Migrant Clinicians Network are deeply committed to the development of a health care workforce that meets the needs of all individuals in every community. The pursuit of a clinical workforce that is competent in multiple languages and culturally diverse continues. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative provided opportunities for higher education, including... Read More
Five on Friday: The Elderly Lack Protection Against the Flu and the Results of MCN’s Protecting Children Project
The flu makes its appearance not just in this week’s Five on Friday recommendations -- it’s responsible for the slowdown of our dear blog! But we’ll be back and in full force next week. For now, I’ve pushed aside the ginger tea and tissues box to pull up the top five recommendations from MCN this week. Enjoy and stay healthy! Current Flu Vaccine Does Not Protect Elderly ... Read More
