SESEH 2012 themes cover a wide range of issues in environment and health:

- Environmental sciences: chemistry, geochemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology and toxicology

- Environmental pollution: air, water (river, lake, and marine), soil, and food

- Environmental pollutants: metals and metalloids; persistent organic pollutants and pesticides

- Environmental technologies: soil remediation; waste water treatment

- Environmental management and monitoring: social impact assessment, economics and policies

- Medical geology, endemic diseases, environmental health and public health

- Links between environment and health, environment and genetic interaction

- GIS and quantitative methods in environment and population health

- Sustainable development and health: agriculture, industry, traffic, urbanization

- Climate change and population health