Giuseppina Chiri

Giuseppina Chiri is a research economist with 20 years of experience conducting evaluations of federal and state public health and long-term care programs. She has extensive expertise in quantitative research methods and working with large administrative datasets. At RTI, Dr. Chiri directs quantitative analyses of federal programs that focus on the health care needs and expenditures of Medicare-Medicaid eligible beneficiaries. In her role, she employs econometric modeling and large dataset analytics to assess the effects of changes in legislation and regulation on federal, state, and beneficiary health care spending.

Dr. Chiri currently serves as the Associate Project Director on the Integrated Datasets on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities project, which is funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and aims to create a deidentified, multi-state linked dataset of intellectual and developmental disability data. She also leads several other Administration for Community Living (ACL) and ASPE-funded projects that focus on building and strengthening data capacity for patient-centered outcomes research. 

Prior to joining RTI in 2014, Dr. Chiri was a graduate research associate at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, where she planned and executed administrative data collection for two evaluation projects. Earlier in her career, she conducted research on home and community-based services at the Human Services Research Institute.