Carolyn Cannon-Alfred (born August 16, 1934) is an American pharmacologist.
She received her bachelor's from the University of Toledo, her MS from Howard University, and her PhD from Georgetown University.
Her and her husband, J.
Tyrone Alfred, wrote Medical Handbook for the Layman.She served as an assistant pharmacologist at Howard University from 1957–59, and accepted a position there as an instructor in 1961.
Later that year, she was hired as a Senior Pharmacologist at Riker Laboratories, and in 1962 she took a research associate position at California Riverside Hospital.
In 1964 she moved to University of Southern California School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.
She received a two-year research grant from the National Heart Institute in 1964.