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Myrellis and Ashley-Michelle shared an article on a controversial community-led movement against sexual violence in Puerto Rico, highlighting the sexual violence crisis with which Puerto Ricans are grappling: ¿Has Visto la Lista? An Instagram account called Yo Te Creo started naming alleged abusers in Puerto Rico. Did it go too far?Alma forwarded on the CDC’s announcement of a new resource... Read More
[Editor’s Note: On October 21, 2021, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) hosted a webinar, ‘Lessons from the Field: Vaccinating Our Immigrant and Migrant Communities', which was supported by funding from the CDC through the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM). Experts from across the US shared their experiences working to vaccinate vulnerable communities.... Read More
Karen shared this alarming CNN article that makes projections based on the present spike in cases in many parts of Europe. Europe Facing 500,000 More COVID Deaths by February, WHO WarnsKaethe offered a Guardian report that some Health Network Associates have noted is reflective of their work with migrants and refugees at the border. ‘So Many Have Gone’: Storms and Drought Drive Guatemalans... 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. Funded by an $8.1 million grant from HRSA,... Read More
It's Halloween weekend! Before you transform into a ghoul, a goblin, or – even scarier – a Squid Game guard, read up on what's happening in health justice this week, with five picks from MCN staff. Del applauded this editorial in the journal Nature: The COVID Pandemic Must Lead to Tuberculosis VaccinesJillian, from our Chico, California office, says this Washington Post article “is not... Read More
MCN's Marysel Pagán Santana: Devoted to Serve Climate-Impacted Workers, Mobilizing Rural Puerto Rican Communities to Protect the Most Vulnerable
Yesterday, 140 people from across the country joined an American Public Health Association (APHA) virtual meeting to celebrate worker health and safety advocates. And we at MCN excitedly watched Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, the Senior Program Manager in MCN’s Puerto Rico office, receive the Lorin Kerr Award.“Marysel Pagán Santana has devoted her career to improve worker health and... Read More
Earlier this month, on a warm Saturday in the cafeteria of an elementary school in Austin, Texas, dozens of families lined up, masked and distanced, and waited for their turn for a free eye exam. Young children as young as three were seated next to volunteers from the local Lyon’s Club. Family members received insurance and health information and school supplies from Superior Health Club, Blue... Read More
It’s Friday! Time to peek into the inboxes of MCN staff. Each week, we share lots of news, resources, and videos among ourselves to keep up to date. Here are a few we wanted to highlight. Wilmarí shared new data from Puerto Rico of the time-varying effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.Leslie recommended the NESAWG conference in Spanish: “It Takes a Region” ConferenciaAníbal forwarded on... Read More
Albert Einstein said, “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” I hope I am not being presumptuous to add a corollary: “Not everything that counts can count for me.” I add this sentence because it is something we attend to at Witness to Witness (W2W) all the time, since it is one of our approaches to managing the... 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. Funded by an $8.1 million grant from HRSA,... Read More
