Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder: What we know and what are we investigating?

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, HB '78, PhD, MPH is the Maclnnes Professor and Chair of the Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Health Initiatives, and is the Director for the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Pinto-Martin was awarded the TIME magazine Top Ten Parenting Finding of 2011 in her Pediatrics publication on the prevalence of ASD in adolescents born at low birthweight, and has had continuous NIH support for her longitudinal epidemiologic research on neonatal brain injury with since 1984.