Dr. Sara A. Freed is a Clinical Research Associate at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She joined the Center in 2023 working on the New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) Data Warehouse and now leads all young driver safety outreach at the Center.

As a member of both CIRP's Outreach Team and Neuroscience of Driving Team, Dr. Freed leverages her PhD-level training to promote the dissemination of high-quality young driver safety information. As a communicator, she manages digital consumer communication on young driver safety including CHOP's Teen Driver Source website, quarterly newsletters, and young driver topics on CIRP's Research in Action blog. As a researcher, she studies how to identify at-risk drivers and interventions to make them safer while promoting their mobility.

Dr. Freed combines her doctoral training in older driver research with years of experience researching safety behavior and trends among drivers of all ages to translate injury prevention research into action.