Andrew J. Shin, JD, MPH
Director of Health Care Policy and Life Sciences
ML Strategies, LLC
Biography
Andrew is Director of Health Care Policy and Life Sciences at ML Strategies, the government affairs and policy consulting arm of the international law firm, Mintz Levin. Through conducting in-depth analysis and leveraging his broad experience in the public and private sectors, he provides strategic counsel to for-profit and non-profit organizations, multi-stakeholder coalitions, trade groups, and professional societies that are seeking to shape the regulatory, legislative, and business landscape around health care services, payment, quality, and innovation. Andrew is quoted regularly in the press on health policy and politics issues and has authored numerous articles and white papers on topics ranging from health care payment/delivery reform to personalized medicine and other biomedical innovations.
Experience
Before joining ML Strategies, Andrew was a health policy and market analyst, providing industry analysis for large institutional investors and other financial sector clients. He also continues to serve as an advisor to the Health, Biomedical Science and Society Program at the Aspen Institute.
Andrew has substantial experience with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Within CMS, he was one of the first officials to help launch the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). At CMMI, he held the senior leadership position of Acting Director for the Stakeholder Engagement Group, the division responsible for soliciting stakeholder input in developing delivery and payment reform models. In this role, he worked with stakeholders ranging across providers, payers, suppliers, and patients to build innovative partnerships with state and federal government.
Andrew's experience in the health care industry and research includes positions with the Massachusetts Hospital Association, Harvard School of Public Health, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the U.S. House of Representatives. During legislative proceedings about the Affordable Care Act, he served as a Health Policy Fellow for the majority staff on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and has also served as Legislative Counsel to a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee.
Andrew was also a Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government.
Education
Harvard School of Public Health (MPH, 2008)
Syracuse University College of Law (JD, 2007)
Syracuse University (BA, Policy Studies, Political Science, magna cum laude, 2004)