Series: Leading on COVID-19 vaccinations

From haircuts to high blood pressure management

Thu Feb 17, 2022
Two pharmacists walking past two barbers and their clients in a barbershop
Elisabeth Fall

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, carrying a box of COVID-19 vaccines, walks into the Chicago 2 Barbershop alongside Sarah Chong, PharmD. The two pharmacists are collaborating with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide health care services free of charge to barbershop clients.

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, teams up with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide medication management and COVID vaccines in Black-owned barbershops.

Answering your questions about the COVID-19 vaccines

Wed Jun 2, 2021
Lejano receives shot
Susan Merrell
Information on the safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines, who should get them, and more.

School trains more pharmacists to deliver critical vaccinations

Mon Apr 26, 2021
Clayton injects Go with a saline shot.

Nicola Clayton, PharmD ’14, left, practices giving a shot to James Go, PharmD ’17, as part of a recent immunization training for pharmacists that was organized by faculty members in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Faculty members in the School organized a free immunization training for California pharmacists.

Pharmacy community lends hand to UCSF COVID-19 vaccine effort

Wed Feb 10, 2021
Aludino and employee record dose of vaccine
Susan Merrell

UCSF pharmacy student Matthew Aludino, right, scans a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine prior to administering it on the first day of vaccinations at UCSF, December 16, 2020.

Pharmacy students, technicians, faculty members, and providers all pitched in to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

How we know it’s safe to get the vaccine

Thu Dec 17, 2020
A man wearing a mask measures vaccine in a syringe.
Susan Merrell

Preparing the Pfizer vaccine for injection.

UCSF experts address the safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines