Sarah Allred, PhD

Sarah R. Allred, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Camden affiliated with Psychology, Health Science, Prevention Science, and the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology. From 2017-2021, she served consecutively as the Faculty Director and Director of the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden. 

Dr. Allred is a perceptual scientist and data storyteller who studies how the human brain makes clear and unambiguous judgments about the world from the unclear and ambiguous information at its disposal. Dr. Allred’s fundamental interest in how the brain parses information underlies two distinct scholarly trajectories: publicly-engaged health equity work and basic science research in perception and memory. In her research, teaching, and service, Dr. Allred believes that when academics communicate with community stakeholders as well as other scholars, the result is both better scholarly work and a better world.