The Migrant Clinicians Network is looking for clinicians from Migrant/Community Health Centers to represent their clinics at the 2004 National Farmworker Health Conference in Miami, Florida. Clinic representatives will participate in interactive sessions on Emotionally Charged Health Care Issues, Clinical Leadership, Integrated Medicine, and other critical health care issues for the farm worker population. MCN will pay the registration costs of all clinical representatives. Space is limited so contact us now! If you can identify someone who could help your…

Associated Press, Feb 5, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) – America’s fast-growing minority population isn’t fully represented in the health care professions, according to a new study that urges government and educators to encourage more blacks, Latinos and others to enter medical fields. “Racial and ethnic minority clinicians are significantly more likely than their white peers to serve minority and medically underserved communities,”the prestigious Institute of Medicine said in a study released Thursday. The institute found that while Latinos constitute 12 percent…

REMARKS BY: TOMMY G. THOMPSON, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PLACE: Auditorium, Humphrey Building, Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Press Conference on the Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today to discuss President Bush’s budget for the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2005. I’m joined on the stage by our budget director, Kerry Weems, and the agency heads are in the first couple of rows to answer any other questions you…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting grant proposals for projects along the border that address objectives of the U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program. The U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program is a new binational 10-year cooperative plan aimed at protecting public health and the environment along the 2,000-mile border region where almost 12 million citizens of both countries live. The program’s objectives are to decrease air, water, waste and soil pollution, and to lower the risks of exposure to pesticides and…

President Bush today nominated representatives from each of the four states that share a border with Mexico to serve as members of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission. The bi-national commission develops and coordinates actions to improve the health and quality of life along the United States-Mexico Border. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson and Mexican Secretary of Health Julio Frenk serve as the Commission’s Co-Chairmen. “Despite recent investments, many families living along both sides of the border not only lack health insurance,…