Health Sciences Employees and Students Assist with Vaccine Distribution
UArizona Health Sciences students Rebecca Lynn Amador, Ashley Casarez and Dariana Fimbres volunteer as traffic directors at the UArizona Point of Distribution in Pima County.
Faculty, staff and students from the University of Arizona Health Sciences colleges, departments and centers have been playing a vital role in COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
Vaccination efforts have been underway at the state-run Point of Distribution (POD) in Pima County, located on the University of Arizona campus since January. In Tucson, UArizona Health Sciences employees and students have joined community members to assist with everything from checking people in for their vaccination appointments and monitoring them afterward, to mixing and distributing the Pfizer vaccine. As of April 19, the University POD had distributed more than 175,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the general public, including faculty, staff and students.
Employees and students from the College of Medicine – Phoenix and the College of Pharmacy in Phoenix also have assisted with distribution efforts reaching underserved populations around Arizona.
Click through the images to see your Health Sciences peers and students hard at work getting Arizona vaccinated.
Andrea Fisher, College of Nursing associate vice president for development, confirms vaccination appointments before drivers pull up to the vaccine distribution site.
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health graduate student Hannah Launius volunteers at the check-in area of the COVID-19 vaccination distribution site on the University of Arizona campus.
College of Pharmacy professor David Nix, PharmD, prepares the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for the Pima County drive-through Point of Distribution (POD) at the University of Arizona.
College of Pharmacy professor David Nix, PharmD (left) and 2017 alumnus Kenneth Olson, PharmD, prepare to mix the Pfizer vaccine with saline at the drive-through POD at the University of Arizona.
College of Pharmacy fourth-year PharmD student Annie Hiller prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which will soon find their ways into the arms of recipients.
Deborah Sakiestewa, senior coordinator of clinical research at the University of Arizona All of Us Research Program, volunteers as a medical scribe, as Terry Badger, PhD, RN, professor at the College of Nursing, prepares to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
College of Nursing’s Terry Badger, PhD, RN, administers the COVID-19 vaccine at the Pima County drive-through POD at the University of Arizona.
Leslie Farland, ScD, assistant professor at the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, volunteers as a scribe (left), while College of Pharmacy professor Michael Katz, PharmD, talks to a patient before administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
College of Pharmacy professor Michael Katz, PharmD, prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at the Pima County drive-through POD at the University of Arizona.
Fourth-year College of Pharmacy PharmD student Annie Hiller stands by a sign in front of the walk-in vaccination site on the University of Arizona campus. Hiller has assisted with preparing the Pfizer vaccines for distribution at the University POD.
College of Pharmacy clinical instructor Kristen Ellis, PharmD, BCPS, prepares to give the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient.
College of Pharmacy’s Kristen Ellis, PharmD, BCPS, waits for a car to pull up with a patient who will receive COVID-19 vaccine at the drive-through POD.
College of Nursing student Paige Foley volunteers as a scribe at the Pima County POD on the UArizona campus.
Aaron Yoder, a graduate student at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, volunteers as an observation assistant, monitoring patients for adverse side effects for 15 minutes after vaccination.
Aaron Yoder checks in with a vaccine recipient, giving instructions to wait for 15 minutes to make sure there are no side effects.
Leslie Farland, ScD, assistant professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, poses by a sign at the Pima County POD at the University of Arizona to encourage others to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
The Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in Phoenix after piloting a vaccination program at El Mirage Senior Village in El Mirage, Arizona. Left to right: Jeffery Hanna; Maricopa County Department of Public Health liaison Mackenzie Tewell; Associate Dean of Community Engagement and Outreach – Phoenix Programs Cecilia Rosales, MD; Alma Ramirez; Maria Jaime; and Maryell Martinez.
Jim Lindgren, MD, director of simulation curriculum and clinical assistant professor at College of Medicine – Phoenix, prepares a vaccine as Jeffery Hanna, clinical research coordinator, observes.