Lauren Wise
Lauren Anne Wise is a Canadian-American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Education. Lauren Wise completed a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude at Bowdoin College with a double major in biochemistry and women's studies in 1996. She earned a Master of Science with a concentration in reproductive epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2000. She completed a Doctor of Science in epidemiology with a minor in biostatistics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2004. Her dissertation examined reproductive and  hormonal risk factors for uterine fibroids in the Black Women’s Health Study. Career. Lauren Wise is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist by training. She has been on faculty at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) since 2004. In 2015, she was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at BUSPH. Her research involves the study of environmental and genetic determinants of benign gynecologic disorders, subfertility, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. She is currently Principal Investigator of Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO), a NICHD-funded North American preconception cohort study of 16,000 females and 4,000 of their male  partners in which recruitment and follow-up occur via the internet. She received NIEHS funding in 2019 to continue this research. She is also Principal Investigator of NIEHS-funded studies of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids) in the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids (SELF), a prospective cohort study of 1,693 young African American women from Detroit, Michigan. In addition, she has contributed to the Black Women's Health Study which includes more than 59,000 African American women and investigates health conditions disproportionately affecting Black women. She is on the editorial board of "Human Reproduction", the "American Journal of Epidemiology", and "Perinatal  and Pediatric Epidemiology". From 2013-2015, she served as Member-At-Large of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). From 2015-2018, she served as Secretary/Treasurer of SER. She is President of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER). Wise received the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Early Career Public Health Research Award in 2011. She earned the American Journal of Epidemiology and the Society for Epidemiologic Research's Article of the Year award in 2013 and 2020. In 2020, she received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship from Boston  University School of Public Health.https://www.bu.edu/sph/announcement/student-staff-and-faculty-awards-2020/ NIH Grants. Lauren Wise has obtained several grants as Principal Investigator from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including: Publications. Lauren has published more than 280 peer-reviewed journal articles. Her most cited first-authored papers include: