Joseph E. Gaugler School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA

Joseph Gaugler is the Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care & Aging in the Division of Health Policy and Management and School of Public Health at The University of Minnesota. He also directs the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation and the CDC-funded BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving at the University of Minnesota. Joseph's research examines the sources and effectiveness of long-term care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other chronic conditions. Underpinning this substantive area, he also has interests in mixed methods and implementation science.

Joseph was the Editor for the Journal of Applied Gerontology (2011-2017) and is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA; 2020-present). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Psychology and Aging, the Journal of Applied Gerontology, and Research on Aging. He was awarded the 2003 Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Adult Development and Aging Research, the 2011 M. Powell Lawton Distinguished Contribution Award for Applied Gerontology from the American Psychological Association (Division 20), the 2011 Dean's Award from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, the 2015 Gordon Streib Distinguished Academic Gerontologist Award from the Southern Gerontological Society, and the 2021 Excellence in Post-Doctoral Advising Award from The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Psychological Association. Joseph is also an Emeritus Long-Term Care Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.