Lauren Wise, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health, has been awarded the 2011 Association of Schools of Public Health/Pfizer Young Investigator’s Award for Distinguished Research in Public Health.

The award for her research on the epidemiology of uterine leiomyotmata will presented to her at  the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting, which begins later this week in Washington, D.C.