Javier García-Rivas
Ave. Estrada Cajigal #400,
Col. Tezontepec, Cuernavaca, Mor.
Mexico C.P. 62250

Javier García-Rivas is currently the Center for Social Epidemiology and UCI's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) Project Manager for our 2-year study on work and obesity in firefighters, funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/NIOSH).
As Project Manager he is responsible for contacting subjects, scheduling study subject appointments, data entry and management, maintaining the regulatory documentation including study documentation binders and electronic files, IRB application approvals, protocol modifications, annual IRB renewals, adverse event reporting and organization of consent translation and approvals, scheduling study team meetings and Advisory Committee meetings, producing progress reports for Principal Investigator to be reported at study team meetings and for annual progress reports.
Selected References
Garcia, J. (2010). Translation and validation of the Stanford Presenteeism Scale – 6 (in Spanish). To be presented at the 3rd Forum of the Americas on Psychosocial factors at work, stress and mental health at work. Mexico City, Mexico.
Conference
Garcia, J. (2010). Presenteeism (in Spanish). Psychology week. School of Psychology. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.
Conference
Juárez-García, A., García-Rivas, J. & Vera-Calzaretta, A. (2010). Occupational Health Psychology in Latin-America: The Networking Efforts (in English). SOHPNewsletter. Vol. 8. June.
Co-author
Garcia, J. (2009). Work crisis and quality of life (in Spanish). 38th anniversary of the School of Psychology. School of Psychology. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.
Conference
Camacho-Ávila, A. Juárez-García, A., Arias-Galicia F. & García-Rivas, J. (2009). Burnout síndrome and health (in Spanish). Revista Mexicana de Psicología. Special number, October. ISSN0185607-3
Co-author
Camacho-Ávila, A. Juárez-García, A. García-Rivas, J. & Arias-Galicia F. (2008). Prevalencia del Desequilibrio Esfuerzo Recompensa en
Población Mexicana (in Spanish). Revista Mexicana de Psicología. Special number, October. ISSN0185607-3
Co-author
Camacho-Ávila, A. Juárez-García, A., Arias-Galicia F. & García-Rivas, J. (2009). Síndrome de Burnout y su relación con la Salud (in Spanish). XVII Congreso Mexicano de Psicología. Acapulco, México.
Co-author
Juarez, A. & García, J. (2008). Validity of the CESQT (burnout questionnaire) and associated variables in blue-collar workers in Mexico (in Spanish). 8th Conference of European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Valencia, Spain.
Co-author
Camacho-Ávila, A. Juárez-García, A. García-Rivas, J. & Arias-Galicia F. (2008). Prevalence of Effort-Reward Imbalance in Mexican Population (in English). Poster at the Third ICOH International Conference on Psychosocial Factors at Work, From Knowledge to action. Quebec, Canada.
Co-author
García-Rivas, J. & Camacho-Ávila, A. (2008). Psychosocial factors as performance determiners in workers of a pharmaceutical company (in
Spanish). XIX Congreso Iberoamericano de Psicología del Trabajo. XVI Congreso Iberoamericano de Recursos Humanos. Acapulco, Mexico.
Conference
García, J. (2008). Introduction to the study of Psychosocial Factors (in Spanish). 1st Colloquial on Psychosocial Factors at Work. Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México - UNAM. Mexico City.
Conference