COVID-19 and the Realities for Farmworkers and the Clinicians who Care for Them: A Learning Session

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Migrant Clinicians Network

COVID-19 and the Realities for Farmworkers and the Clinicians who Care for Them: A Learning Session

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:00 PM (PST) / 3:00 PM (ET)
This webinar is scheduled for 1.5 hours

What is being learned about COVID-19 changes daily. Yet clinicians are on the front lines caring for farmworkers and their families, translating science into policy and practice as they treat. Meanwhile, the impact of COVID-19 on farmworkers is drastic. In a growing number of cases, nearly every worker on multiple farms are testing positive. Our best strategy at this moment in time is to keep each other up to date and to learn from other clinicians. Join us for a panel discussion followed by a Q and A of migrant clinicians.

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Our panelists include:

Seth

Seth Holmes, MD, PhD  

Seth Holmes, MD, PhD, is cultural and medical anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and way in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized and resisted. He is the author of Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. During  this COVID-19 pandemic, he has been helping to test farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida.

Lori

Lori Talbot, MD  

Lori Talbot, MD, has been committed to providing medical care to the underserved and migrant farmworker communities for decades. Having served as medical director of a migrant health center for many years, she continues to have a weekly clinic for the local farmworkers every summer in New Jersey. She is currently helping to test workers and advise health centers and farms.

Mel

Melanie Finklebinder, MD  

Melanie Finklebinder, MD is a family physician who has devoted her career to the underserved. She is currently the medical director for the agricultural worker program at Keystone Health, a community health center in Pennsylvania.

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