My job as the Director of the NIH is to try to put in, put together rigorous research programs to actually address it. And so like last year, for instance, We put together a program called the Autism Data Science Initiative to figure out what is the cause of autism. Autism rates have risen so much in the last decades and we don't really have an answer for why. I, as a scientist and also as a parent would love to know the answer for that. (13:11–13:18)
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