November 6-8, 2025 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Call for Special Sessions

 

Title of special session 1: Pollution and biosecurity threats to sustainable environmental and human health in an interconnected world

Short description of the proposed topic: The global reach, risks, and hazards that environmental pollution pose to health security - for humans and the environment – is an issue of growing concern. Research documents the far-reaching implications pollution pose to human and environmental health. Biosecurity hazards, risks, and near misses offer examples of environmental pollution events where humanity may learn from mistakes, and averted disasters. This topic aims to raise awareness and share knowlege that may prompt improved biosecurity monitoring, preventative strategies, effective policy, and sustainable practice.

Novelty and motivation: This session’s novelty lies in its examination of the nexus between biosecurity safety/hazards and human risk-taking/perception. Researching the conditions that divert, or fail to prevent, environmental pollution events is central to understanding them for future prevention. By combining social and natural sciences, the session will contribute to furthering knowledge about human risk-taking/safeguarding to support local and global environmental and human health/safety related to microbial factors.

Short Biography of Organizers:

Angela T. Ragusa is a sociologist at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is Editor-in-Chief of the multidisciplinary journal, Rural Society: Journal of global research into rural social problems and sustainable communities, published by Taylor & Francis, UK, and has 25 years experience as a university researcher, educator, and advocate for environmental, community, and human health.

 

 

Andrea Crampton is a microbiologist at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is Associate Editor of Rural Society and has researched and taught widely for over two decades in the areas of parasitology and microbiology, with specialized interest in environmental pollution, health and communication.

 

 


 

You are encouraged to submit proposals for special session within the technical scope of the conference. Special session supplement the regular program of the conference and provide a sample of the state-of-the-art research in both academia and industry in special, novel, challenging, and emerging topics. Submissions in the special session will be evaluated and peer-reviewed as per the same criteria of the regular papers. Accepted and registered session papers will be included in conference proceedings, and submit to main abstracting and indexing databases. Abstracts will be included in the program. Each approved proposal will be allotted a programming time slot for no less than 90 minutes(6 presentations at least) in the conference program.

Special session proposals should be submitted by the prospective organizer(s) who will commit to promoting and handling the review process of their workshop as Chairs or Co-Chairs of the event.

The Special session organizers will receive ONE free registration for every 6 papers accepted and registered in the conference under their special session. The Organizing Committee invites researchers and academics to submit their proposals to organize special sessions.

Proposals should include the following information:
Tentative Title;
Short description of the proposed topic: (approx. 100 words)
Novelty and motivation: (explain why this session is indeed special and cannot be part of the regular program)
Brief bio(s) of organizer(s);
Name(s), Emails and Affiliations of organizer(s);
Name(s), Emails and Affiliations of chair(s);
Papers information;
Potential Reviewers Information;
Related topics;
A draft of the CFP.

Special Sessions Proposals should be submitted to conference secretary via iceppconference@163.com before September 20, 2025.