President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced the plan on Monday. Autism now affects one in 31 American children, according to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. NIH will fund 13 projects under the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI), with more than $50 million in new awards. Bhattacharya says the goal is to fix the “fragmentation” of current health data. At a recent Senate hearing, Toby Rogers of the Brownstone Institute cited data showing that 88 percent of autism cases involve regression.