Short Biosketch
Fabrizio Méndez River holds a Bachelor and a Masters in Sociology from the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He has worked in public policy in Uruguay and as an independent consultant in Uruguayan and internationals institutions (OPS, BID). His research interests are in the field of health inequalities, social determinants of health, especially employment and psychosocial working
conditions. He is currently holding a grant for doctoral training from the National Agency for Research and Innovation of Uruguay and is developing his research on precarious employment, mental health, and stress.

Research Interests (key words)
Social determinants of health; Health inequalities; Precarious employment; Psychosocial work environment; Mental health

Disclosure and knowledge transfer actions
Méndez, F; Bolibar, M; Julià, M (2020) Precarious employment, psychosocial risk factors, reproductive workload and chronic
stress: a mediation analysis in a sample of workers from Barcelona. Oral presentation in V Intercongressional Meeting of Sociology of the Work.

Presentation: “Precarious employment, psychosocial risk factors, work-life conflict, and production of adrenal steroids”. 2021 XXXIX Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE), XVI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE) and XIX Congress of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Sanitary Administration (SESPAS). September 2021. Virtual

Presentation: “Precarious employment, psychosocial risk factors, work-life conflict, and stress”. 2021 WORK21 Conference. August 2021. Virtual

Presentation: “Precarious employment, psychosocial risk factors, work-life conflict, and stress”. 2021 SASE Conference. July 2021. Virtu

Participation in national projects
Research associate. Precarious employment and stress: Social factors with a biomedical impact (PRESSED)

Participation in international projects

Research associate. PWR project