Our lab made the news! Check out our recent publication!
Study: Hormones, perceived physical changes during puberty differ over sociodemographics
The FASD Project
We are working with many respected NGO’s in the United States (FASD Communities, NoFAS Washington State, Proof Alliance) to ignite a mass awakening in our society to really understand Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
We now have a 30 second trailer and a 15 minute awareness video to share with everyone!
To support The FASD Project, please view, like, subscribe and share to elevate awareness. If you are interested in sponsoring the full-feature of The FASD Project, or a 6-part Docuseries, you’re in luck as it is being made now in 2021. Please contact our lab via Dr. Kristina Uban at kuban@uci.edu.
30 second trailer:
15 minute short film:
Full-length documentary: In production now & still fundraising!
We are co-sponsoring a Fire Side Chat and Networking Event April 2, 2021!
We work closely with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (R) working with the large data set of salivary hormones in typically developing adolescents. Our lab is co-sponsoring a Round Table Event followed by a Networking Event Friday April 2, 2021. If you are as excited to meet others interested in salivary hormones in kids on your Friday night as we are, we want to meet you! haha.
Open to first 100 who RSVP:
RSVP: https://forms.gle/VUhNbFvCmL4iqBW79
We are Producing a DocuSeries on FASD!
You may be wondering why a scientific laboratory is producing a DocuSeries on FASD! Well, since the pandemic onset, maternal drinking has risen 41%. This means we are facing a spike in incidence and severity of FASD among babies born in 2020-2021. Now is the time for rapid awareness to prevent this future epidemic of FASD. Creating a collaborative film on FASD is the mechanism we have chosen to most rapidly and effectively ignite awareness and therefore prevention of FASD.
Curious to see how it’s going? Check out our website for real time updates: www.thefasdproject.com
Want to help prevent this future spike in FASD and give our future humans the best possible brain and body to live out their best possible lives? Please consider donating and sharing our Go Fund Me: https://www.thefasdproject.com/fund-this-project
Funds go to hiring top-notch post-production team for rapid dissemination in Dec 2020-Jan 2021, and any excess of the goal goes to producing Forever Homes for adults with an FASD (https://fasdcommunities.com)
Thank you!
Seeking individual with marketing skills to help launch FASD Awareness campaign
Dr. Kristina Uban, Assistant Professor in Public Health, and the non-profit FASD Communities are seeking a collaborator with skills to help initiate a social media campaign to help bring awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is the leading cause of learning and memory problems that is completely preventable. Recently, it has been estimated that 1 in 9 babies are born with prenatal alcohol exposure in the US. Yet, still today many people do not know what FASD is, or understand what it means to have FASD. We want to reach women and men of childbearing age, police, judicial system workers, educators, social workers, medical providers, and anyone playing a potential role in an individual’s life with FASD to help increase understanding of this developmental disorder. Many individuals with FASD have other connected physical and mental health problems, trouble with the law and live in foster care or residential systems. Many people are not aware of the risks that come along with an alcohol exposed pregnancy. If they are aware and accidentally exposure their pregnancy to alcohol, they do not know what can be done to help reduce risks moving forward. Most professionals who interact with people with FASD are not aware of FASD, or what to do once they learn someone has FASD. We need this to change.
If you think you’re the right person to help us create a movement of awareness and accomplish what the ice bucket challenge did for ALS, and do it for FASD, please contact kuban@uci.edu. We expect the selected applicant to meet with the FASD Communities Board Members and help them initiate this social media movement. We anticipate working on this as a group for a relatively short amount of time (June – Aug 2019). If a student with skills in marketing with social media is interested in obtaining credit for this project, and a letter of recommendation fro Dr. Uban, we can arrange this. Dr. Uban can cover costs of materials/production to accomplish this goal. We would like to release this FASD awareness campaign for FASD Awareness day in 2019 (Sept 9th – the 9’s representing the months of pregnancy).