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E: tcosco@sfu.ca
Office: Harbour Centre, Room 2800                          

Associate Professor 

Theodore D Cosco, PhD is an Associate Professor of Mental Health & Aging at the Department of Gerontology, 丁香园AV and Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford.

Dr. Cosco is a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society) trained in applied social research methods (MSc 2011, Trinity College Dublin), and epidemiology (PhD 2015, University of Cambridge). For his contributions to pedagogy, he has been elected to Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and for contributions to psychology Associate Fellowship of the British Psychological Society. Recently, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association and European Health Psychology Society, the Young Investigator Colloquium Scholarship from the American Psychosomatic Society, as well as becoming the youngest recipient of the Canadian Association on Gerontology鈥檚 Recognition Award for Excellence in Longitudinal Research in Honour of Betty Havens.

At age 12 Dr. Cosco began volunteering at a long-term care facility, beginning what would become a life-long passion for gerontology and the aging process. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, Dr. Cosco examines a range of factors that promote healthy aging and resilience in older adults, from digital interventions to physical activity.

• 2015: PhD (Public Health and Primary Care), University of Cambridge
• 2011: MSc (Applied Social Research), Trinity College Dublin
• 2009: BSc (Psychology), University of Alberta

Healthy aging: functional trajectory modelling, resilience in adversity, positive psychology, social support, social isolation, loneliness, lifestyle behaviors (e.g. physical activity); Mental health: wellbeing, quality of life, depression, anxiety; Life course epidemiology: longitudinal analysis, latent variable modelling, population-level health; Research methods: qualitative and quantitative analysis, statistics, data collection, survey methods; eHealth: health and technology, mobile health, technology-driven data collection methods, the internet of things

Contract/Grant: Connection Grant, Matched Funding   Awarded: 2022    Period: 2022 - 2023

Project Title: Mental health needs and technological interventions for social connectedness amongst older adults: Development of a multi-media knowledge mobilization ecosystem
Funding: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Type: Research Grant    Total: $50,000
Involvement: Principal Investigator

Contract/Grant: National Targeted CIHR  Awarded: 2021    Period: 2021 - 2027

Project Title: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Follow-up 3 and Follow-up 4
Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research   Type: Research Grant    Total: $52,000,000
Involvement: Co-Investigator

Contract/Grant: Scholar Award    Awarded: 2020    Period: 2020 - 2025

Project Title: Mental health in later life: A stakeholder informed approach to health and technology
Funding: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research   Type: Award    Total: $450,000
Involvement: Principal Investigator   

Contract/Grant: Partnership Grant  Awarded: 2020    Period: 2020 - 2025

Project Title: Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3): Developing talent for population analytics in aging societies
Funding: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Type: Partnership Grant    Total: $2,499,996    Involvement: Co-Investigator

Contract/Grant: Core Research Project   Awarded: 2020    Period: 2020 - 2023

Project Title: Precision mental health: A stakeholder informed, Big Data approach to psychological wellbeing
Funding: AGE-WELL Network Centres of Excellence   Type: Project Grant    Total: $474,000
Involvement: Principal Investigator