Dr. Puttkammer’s interests are in strengthening health information systems and promoting data use for improvement of the HIV care cascade in resource-limited settings. She is trained as a health services researcher, specializing in using observational, routinely-collected data from electronic medical records (EMRs) to strengthen HIV care and treatment programs. In her capacity as a Research and Evaluation Advisor at the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), she works with informatics and training projects in Haiti, Kenya, South Africa, Ukraine to improve national health information systems, evaluate data quality and data use, support data analyses, and develop capacity for data use and implementation science research among colleagues and counterparts. Dr. Puttkammer is a faculty Co-Lead of the Digital Initiatives Group at I-TECH (DIGI). She has worked in public health programs in the US, Africa and the Caribbean for more than 30 years.