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The third edition of Drug-Resistant TB: A Survival Guide for Clinicians was released this week by the Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) and the Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health. The comprehensive guide, geared toward clinicians who participate in the management of patients with drug-resistant TB, contains extensive tools and templates... Read More
New Resource and Upcoming Webinar on Protecting Farmworkers: What clinicians need to know about the newly revised Worker Protection Standard
Last year, Migrant Clinicians Network celebrated the newly updated Worker Protection Standard (WPS), released by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The long-awaited changes promise stronger protections for the nation’s agricultural workers while they grow and harvest the food that ends up on our tables. Now comes the next phase: education around the changes, implementation, and enforcement.... Read More
As we roll into the weekend, we’d like to offer up some of the interesting news pieces that floated into our inboxes this week. What did you see this week? Let us know on Facebook and Twitter.1. Candace, Specialist in Clinical Systems & Women’s Health: “The Hesperian folks have done it again...a new book [Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain] about health promotion in the Latino community... Read More
Last month, as part of the commemorations of World TB Day, Deliana Garcia, MA, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Director of International Projects, Research, and Development, traveled to Brasilia, Brazil to join health advocates and parliamentarians from across Central and South America in the first meeting of the Americas TB Caucus. The newly formed caucus, a subgroup of the Global TB Caucus, aims... Read More
This week, we at Migrant Clinicians Network posted our Health Justice Plan for 2016, which outlines MCN’s advocacy priorities for the year. Our outlined priorities advance health justice for the mobile poor within the arenas of human rights and immigration, access to health care, and worker health and safety. This year’s priorities include:Worldwide Refugee Health AccessBorder Health AccessBorder... Read More
[Editor’s note: This week is National Public Health Week. Climate change has long been recognized as a significant and emerging global public health threat. The Lancet’s 2009 Commission on Climate Change called it the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century;” the Lancet’s 2015 Commission on Health and Climate Change added, “Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health... Read More
Happy Friday! We hope your springtime days are warm and healthy and not too allergy-ridden. Before we go sneezing into the weekend, here are a few news stories that MCN staff members thought are too good to be missed. Hope you enjoy them, too.1. Amy, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health: “OSHA's new silica rule is a BIG deal!” OSHA announced an important new rule protecting... Read More
Today is the final day of Farmworker Awareness Week, which culminates each year on March 31st, Cesar Chavez’s birthday. Despite the years of important work of Cesar Chavez and many others, agriculture continues to be one of the most dangerous occupations in the US, and protections for farmworkers still lag behind protections for workers in other industries. But there is reason to be hopeful... Read More
[Editor’s Note: We are in the final days of Farmworker Awareness Week, and we’d like to highlight one MCN program working to improve environmental health for farmworkers. Migrant Clinicians Network’s Environmental and Occupational Health team in Maryland has developed and distributed a wealth of materials on pesticides and workplace safety, to assist clinicians in the exam room and to support... Read More
Tuberculosis is America’s biggest public health threat, greater than Zika, Ebola, and dengue fever combined. The latest news from the CDC that TB cases have increased in the last year underscored what activists have been voicing for several years: we don’t have enough funding in the US to keep TB in check, let alone work toward elimination. Yesterday, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Ed... Read More
