The UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is among the nation’s foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. It is one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences focuses on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.
VoLo Foundation provides support for the BOOST study under the leadership of Prof. and Vice Chair Elissa Epel and Prof. Aric Prather at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The study investigates the effects of immune aging, stress, and sleeping on the long-term effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine responses.
