Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman‘s expertise on aging societies and healthy aging is being called on as we prepare to live longer and grow our population to 9 billion. In the piece “Can You Get Smarter?” in today’s New York Times, Lisa comments on the impact of social networks on cognitive decline; today’s Harvard Gazette headline directs readers to the piece entitled “The Aging Game” in Harvard Public Health magazine that features extensive commentary by Lisa; and she will be a featured speaker at Harvard University’s inaugural, university-wide TEDx event entitled “9 Billion: Surviving & Thriving in 2050” on November 7.