Marysel Pagán Santana is the director of environmental and occupational health for the Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN). She is also the senior program manager of the Caribbean Office, where she leads and coordinates MCN climate projects. In this role, Pagán Santana provides technical assistance, training, and tool development that help community health centers and residents address disaster issues and target health outcomes.
Pagán Santana is the principal investigator on various small projects that explore disasters in Puerto Rican agricultural communities and fosters the MCN network of organizations working on climate and health initiatives in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. She has extensive experience training high-risk and vulnerable worker populations and conducting community-based projects.
Pagán Santana has more than seven years of private-sector experience as an industrial hygienist. Previous work areas include developing and implementing occupational and environmental health training, emergency preparedness, and business continuity planning programs. Pagán-Santana has a master’s degree and a doctorate from University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus in industrial hygiene and public health, respectively. Her PhD emphasized environmental health. She was the 2021 recipient of the American Public Health Association Lorin Kerr Award, which recognized her dedication to worker health and safety.