Topics and Expertise: COVID-19 vaccine

Frontline Pharmacy: Rising to the Moment

Tue Mar 11, 2025
UCSF staff getting vaccinated by Hom
Susan Merrell

Tomas Diaz, a clinical fellow in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine, gets a COVID-19 shot from Matthew Aludino, a fourth-year student in the School of Pharmacy.

As COVID-19 cases began rising in San Francisco, UCSF Health mobilized to vaccinate thousands of frontline workers; secured and rapidly deployed new therapeutics; and worked with public health and pharmacy leaders nationwide to share protocols and best practices as new therapies emerged, while...

QBI and Director Krogan’s COVID and infectious disease efforts continue to make waves

Thu Sep 21, 2023
Nevan Krogan receives award.

Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley (left) with QBI Director Nevan Krogan, PhD (center), and Pfizer Senior Vice President and Head of Vaccine Research and Development Annaliesa Anderson, PhD (right).

QBI publishes breakthrough on COVID-19 variants; Nevan Krogan recognized as trailblazer.

No sign of Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in breast milk

Wed Jul 28, 2021

Employees urged to submit COVID-19 vaccination records

Mon May 10, 2021
If you did not receive your vaccination at UCSF, you can submit your documentation via the Occupational Health Portal website.

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