Symposium

August 20 (THU)

Keynote Lecture 1

09:40 - 10:20

Closing Gaps in Access to Safe, Reliable, Affordable Drinking Water in North Carolina, USA: The Role of Risk Analysis

Prof.Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson

(Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA)

Symposium 1: Environmental and chemical risk assessment

10:40 - 12:00

A Personalized Exposure Factor Framework for Population-Level Risk Analysis

Prof. Kyungho Choi

(Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Korea)

PFAS and Electronic Waste: Emerging Global Challenges for Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Risk Governance

Prof. Abdel-Razak M Kadry

(Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, USA)

From Monitoring to Digital Twins: Enhancing Accuracy in Environmental Exposure Assessment

Prof. Yong-Jin Lee

(Institute for Systems Science in Climate, Envionment & Health (ISS-CEH), College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea)

Integrating Chemical Health Risk Assessment into Taiwan’s Environmental Impact Assessment System: The CTSP Phase 3 and Phase 4 Case

Prof. Mei-Lien Chen

(Institute of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Symposium 2: Risk management

14:00 - 15:20

Which Is the First? Revisiting Evaluation Functions for Setting Priority of Risk Management

Prof. Yasunobu Maeda

(Professor Emeritus, Shizuoka University, Japan)

Setting Risk Management Criteria: Current Status and Challenges

Dr. Kyoko Ono

(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

Beyond the Binary: Strengthening Gender Equity and Social Justice in Antimicrobial Resistance Control

Dr. Geminn Louis C. Apostol

(School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

Modeling for Circular Economy

Prof. Hwong-Wen Ma

(Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Symposium 3: Risk communication 1

15:40 - 17:00

Youth Influencer Marketing Exposure, Media Literacy, and Health Risks

Prof. Fong-Ching Chang

(National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

The psychological mechanisms underlying differently construed pro-environmental behaviors

Prof. Tsung-Jen Shih

(National Chengchi University,Taiwan)

HIV Science as ART: Normalized Risk, Chemsex, and Art Activism in Post-AIDS Taiwan

Prof. Po-Yao Huang

(National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Evaluation of Creative Communication Interventions for Health and Natural Hazard Risks

Dr. Olivia Jensen

(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

   

August 21 (FRI)

Keynote Lecture 2

09:00 - 09:40 (Main meeting room)

Dietary Guidelines for Public Health: USA vs. World Health Organization

Prof. Felicia Wu

(John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Food Safety, Toxicology, and Risk Assessment, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, USA)

Symposium 4: Climate risk

10:00 - 11:00 (Main meeting room)

Linking Climate Science to Local Adaptation: From Risk Assessment to Implementation Cases

Dr. Hsin-Chi Li

(Researcher, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR), Taiwan)

From Climate Projections to Systemic Protection: Co-Designing Localized Data Networks for Public Health Risk Governance

Dr. Shih-Yu Lee

(Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Assessing Climate Risks and Adaptation Potentials in Agriculture: Modeling Support for Adaptation Planning

Dr. Chu-Chung Chen

(Associate Research Fellow, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute)

Symposium 6: Applications of toxicology in risk assessment

11:20 - 12:00 (Main meeting room)

The Role of Toxicology Centers in Public Health and Environmental Toxicologic Incidents

Dr. Rhodora M. Reyes

(East Avenue Medical Center – Toxicology Referral and Training Center (EAMC-TRTC), Department of Health, Philippines)

Risk Assessment to Environmental Mutagens

Prof. Osama El-Tawil

(Professor of Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt)

Symposium 7: Food & Microbial risk

14:00 - 15:20 (Main meeting room)

Integrating Predictive Microbiology and Data: An Open-Source Approach to Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment

Prof. Kento Koyama

(Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Probabilistic and Sensitive Dietary Risk Assessment of Sixteen Legacy and Emerging Organophosphorus Flame Retardants in the Taiwanese populations: A food market basket study

Prof. Wei-Hsiang Chang

(Department of Food Safety/Hygiene and Risk Management, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Establishment of a Tertiary Model with Bayesian Statistics to Assess Cancer Risk due to Consuming Maize Contaminated with Aflatoxin B1 Influenced by Climate Change

Ms. Pei-Chen Chao

(Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Predictive Growth Modeling and Quantitative Microbial Exposure Assessment of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Retail Sugarcane Juice in Taiwan

Dr. Liu-Yean Goh

(School of Food Safety, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

Symposium 8: Energy and Environmental sustainability

14:00 - 15:20 (Second meeting room)

Advanced Methods for Safety and Security Analysis of Energy Systems

Prof. Falak Sher Vira

(DGB Technologies, USA)

Evaluation of the Emergency Planning Zone for a Nuclear Power Plant during the Pre-Defueled Stage of Decommissioning under Conservative Meteorological Conditions

Dr. Cheng-Lun Yu

(National Atomic Research Institute, Taiwan)

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Consequence Analysis of Major Pipeline Leak Scenarios at Taiwan’s  Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Receiving Terminal

Ms. Yu-Ting Chiou

(National Atomic Research Institute, Taiwan)

Green Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Sustainability: A Risk Science Approach toward a Resilient Future

Dr. Hui-Chen Chien

(Deputy direct general, Chemicals Administration, Ministry of Environment, Taiwan)

Symposium 9: Risk communication 2

15:40 - 17:00 (Main meeting room)

Frame Competition and Psychological Reactance: Challenges and Reconstruction of Risk Communication in "In Case of Crisis: Taiwan's National Public Safety Guide" under Political Polarization

Prof. Da-Hua Liu

(National Defense University, Taiwan)

Beyond the “Surface” Attitudes: Rethinking Vaccine Risk Communication Strategies to Address Vaccine Hesitancy

Prof. Julie Qiuyan Liao

(School of Arts & Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong)

Beyond Breaking News: Evidence-Based Risk Communication in the Age of Misinformation

Dr. Sinead Hsi-Yi Chen

(CEO of Science Media Center Taiwan, Taiwan)

Risks and Opportunities: The Emotional Dynamics of AI Adoption

Prof. Leonard Lee

(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Symposium 10: SRA Japan special issue

15:40 - 17:00 (Second meeting room)

Introduction to the Activities of SRA-Japan: Focusing on Outreach and Social Implementation

Dr. Kyoko Ono

(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

Risk Governance for Balancing AI Innovation and Safety

Prof. Atsuo Kishimoto

(D3 Center, the University of Osaka, Japan)

The Encyclopedia of Risk Analysis - Contemporary Arts of “Science for Policy”

Dr. Kenkichi Fujii

(President, The Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Japan)

Abstract Submission Registration Conference Program

Important Dates

Abstract Submission

January 26 - May 31, 2026 July 15, 2026 (extended)

Registration

June 5 - August 19, 2026

Student Oral Competition Abstract Submission Deadline

June 30, 2026

Conference Date

August 20 - 21, 2026