Michael C. Clatts, PhD is a medical anthropologist whose principal area of interest is in community epidemiology and the development of community-based public health programs. Dr. Clatts is a Principal Investigator within the Institute for International Research on Youth at Risk at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. He is also a Professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico and an Associate Professor in the Department of Socio Medical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. Clatts was one of the first social scientists involved in HIV research, having participated in the first NIH epidemiological study of risk factors of AIDS in 1981. Subsequently, he has conducted a number of epidemiological studies related to HIV risk in NYC. These include two NIDA-funded studies of out-of-treatment drug injectors; a CDC-funded evaluation of AIDS outreach and prevention services for homeless youth; an AMFAR-funded study of homeless youths' risk from the NYC street economy; a HOPWA-funded needs assessment of HIV-related services for homeless youth in NYC; and, a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among young men who have sex with men. Dr. Clatts serves as the Principal Investigator on three NIDA-funded studies which combine comparative ethnographic methods and laboratory virology in the study of HIV transmission in high risk drug injection practices, including heroin, crack-cocaine, and methamphetamines. Currently, Dr. Clatts is leading a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among young injectors in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
Sounds like Dr Clatts was interested in another type of balls
ahh! the old postal school of public health. that explains it all.