The Immokalee community is reeling from the recent passage of SB 1718, an immigration law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The bill, set to take effect on July 1, mandates that any business with 25 employees or more must use E-Verify to determine the immigration status of their workers.
Death toll reveals deep racial injustice in America’s health care, housing, employment systems
Posted on Apr 29, 2021 Supporters of the People s Vaccine participate in a rally for global solidarity against vaccine apartheid in Cambridge, Mass., home to many global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Photo by Zack DeClerck / Partners In Health
The following op-ed was written by Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Partners In Health s chief medical officer, who is helping lead the organization s efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, through the U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit, and across 11 PIH-supported countries around the world. This op-ed was inspired by research Mukherjee conducted and published in the Harvard Health Policy Review.
Hundreds of local residents hired to accompany patients across five communities
Posted on Dec 11, 2020 Maria Plata, a community health worker, goes door-to-door providing residents with information about how to protect themselves from COVID-19 in Immokalee, Fla.
Photos by Scott McIntyre for Partners In Health
Maria Plata, an Immokalee, Fla., native and daughter of a Mexican farm worker, was one of millions of Americans who lost their job when COVID-19 hit in early March. But several months later, she found a new opportunity among the first cohort of community health workers hired by Healthcare Network, a local health care provider, and trained by Partners In Health to support her community’s response to the virus.