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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:

Joe Coughlin featured on MIT World videos:
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Driving Miss Daisy Digitally (June 5, 2004)

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)

 
Joseph F. Coughlin

Contact info:

Joseph F. Coughlin
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Building E40-279
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Phone: 617.253.4978
Fax: 617.258.7570
Email to: coughlin "at" mit.edu

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