| Joseph
F. Coughlin
Senior Lecturer, Engineering Systems
Division
Director, AgeLab,
& New England University Transportation Center,
Center for Transportation and Logistics
Joseph F. Coughlin is founder
and Director of MIT’s AgeLab.
Based within ESD, the AgeLab conducts multi-disciplinary
research to understand longevity as a complex system involving
older adult behavior; technology; and, innovations in business
strategy and government policy. Addressing multiple domains
including – transportation, financial services, health
and eldercare, and technology policy, he has published his
research on product, services and policy innovation in both
business and policy journals. In February, 2008 the Wall
Street Journal recognized him as one of America’s
12 pioneers inventing the future of retirement and aging.
Dr. Coughlin was named a Home Health Hero by the
Visiting Nurse Association for his research in technology-enabled
innovation in home healthcare services for the elderly.
He is the 2008 recipient of the Gerontological
Society of America's Maxwell A. Pollack Award for
Productive Aging recognizing the successful translation
of research into practical application and policy improving
the lives of older people.
A Fellow of Switzerland’s
World
Demographic Association, he advises businesses and governments
worldwide. He assisted the World
Economic Forum in the development of scenarios for its
"Financing Demographic Shifts Report" addressing
health and pension policies in aging societies. He is currently
a member of the World
Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Demographic Shifts.
In 2005 President Bush appointed him to the White House
Conference on Aging Advisory Committee where he served on
the group’s Market Innovations sub-committee.
Dr. Coughlin leads the New
England University Transportation Center, a US
Department of Transportation-sponsored research, education,
and technology transfer consortium of MIT, Harvard University
and each of the six New England state universities seeking
to advance the strategic management of disruptive change
on the formulation and implementation of national transportation
policy. He teaches graduate courses in public policy (ESD.253/DUSP.253/1.253)
and health systems innovation (ESD.69/HMS HC.750) offered
in ESD, the Department of Urban Studies & Planning and
Harvard Medical School.
Updated October 2008
News
and announcements:
Op-ed
on driving debate by Joseph Coughlin (The Boston Globe
- July 29, 2009)
Coughlin discusses driving and
senior on WBZ Radio; listen
online
Joe
Coughlin quoted in New York Times article about seniors
and social networking (June 2, 2009)
Joseph
Coughlin Addresses Massachusetts Medical Society Annual
Meeting (May 2009)
Joseph
Coughlin and AgeLab featured on MIT website (April 2009)
Transportation research in the
AgeLab, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, reported by
Randall Pinkston, video
on site Interview with Joe Coughlin and Bryan Reimer of
the AgeLab (December 22, 2008)
Joe Coughlin comments on design
for an aging marketplace “Home
Appliances to Soothe the Aches of Aging Boomers”
The Wall Street Journal (December 3, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin at 2008 Enterprise Community Conference (November
21, 2008)
Joe Coughlin and redesigning
nursing homes “Group
imagines — and works on — a nursing home designed
with the input of patients” Providence Journal
(November 14, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin honored with 2008 Maxwell A. Pollack Award for
Productive Aging from the Gerontological Society of America
(November 12, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin featured at Business Innovation Factory Collaborative
Innovation Summit (October 31, 2008)
AgeLab
Director, Joe Coughlin, spoke at the annual meeting of the
Financial Planning Association (October 19, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin addresses the National Investment Center for Senior
Housing & Care (September 22, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin interviewed on new product design for old age in
New York Times (September 4, 2008)
Senior
Lecturer and AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin in a Boston
Globe article about issues facing the Boomer generation
(July 30, 2008)
New
York Times: AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin says "the
driving experience is about to become profoundly personal"
– As the Roads Turn Gray, Ways to Make Driving Safer
(June 23, 2008)
Wired
writes about the AgeLab's "Aware Car" and Director
Joseph Coughlin (June 6, 2008)
ESD’s
Joe Coughlin keynotes UCLA Conference on Technology and
Aging (May 13, 2008)
Joe
Coughlin delivers Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds
lecture on aging, technology and health systems innovation
(May 5, 2008)
AgeLab
Director Joe Coughlin named Hero in Home HealthCare
(April 17, 2008)
Wall Street Journal names AgeLab's
Dr. Joe Coughlin among "12
People Who are Changing the Future of Your Retirement"
(February 18, 2008)
MIT
AgeLab Preparing for a New Tomorrow (February 12, 2008)
AgeLab's
Joe Coughlin featured in Chicago Tribune (January 29,
2008)
AgeLab's
Joe Coughin quoted in NY Times: Six Decades at the Center
of Attention, and Counting (January 7, 2008)
Swiss
Re's Centre for Global Dialogue: Dr. Joseph Coughlin on
Technology and the Future of Aging (.pdf 7.4mb) (October
1, 2007)
Retiring:
In Pursuit of The Future (September 28, 2007)
"Can
you spot the P.C.A.?" MIT AgeLab's Joe Coughlin
weighs in on personal communication assistants (.pdf) (August
8, 2007)
AgeLab’s
Joseph Coughlin Speaks at 2007 MIT Healthcare Industries
Conference (May 11, 2007)
Joseph
Coughlin served as keynote at the Focalyst Executive Forum
(December 18, 2006)
AgeLab
Director Dr. Joseph Coughlin delivers plenary keynote at
World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress
(November 6, 2006)
AgeLab's
Joe Coughlin keynotes at Aging and Technology conference
(June 16, 2006)
Joe
Coughlin in WSJ (September 28, 2005)
Joe
Coughlin Appointed to White House Conference on Aging
(May 20, 2005)
Joe
Coughlin and Newt Gingrich co-chaired the Emerging Technologies
and Healthcare Innovations Congress Leadership Forum
(December 2, 2004)
AgeLab’s
Joe Coughlin Testifies at U.S. Senate Special Committee
on Aging (May 2, 2004)
Joe
Coughlin addresses the National Governors Association
(February 23, 2004)
MIT
AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin Named Finalist in New England
Business and Technology Association Awards Program (July
2003)
AgeLab’s
Joe Coughlin delivers plenary address at American Telemedicine
Association Annual Meeting (July 2003)
MIT
AgeLab Founder Joe Coughlin Honored with Telly Award
(April 2003)
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