Edwin Sun Email & Phone Number

Oakland, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Strategize to balance competing objectives in affordable housing Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs), including: cost control, project readiness, and the need to minimize complexity of financing sources in project capital stacks-Implement accountability framework for new programs via fiscal oversight, compliance monitoring, outcomes metrics, and other.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Launched a full-service technical assistance program to ensure local government success in implementing and complying with new statutes enacted by the State Legislature-Provide qualitative research analysis through focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders, such as affordable housing developers, planning departments, and academic.

• OPR commissioned me to conduct a research study and recommend policy changes in statewide land use in order to jointly tackle the challenges of housing unaffordability and rising greenhouse gas emissions
• Developed a quantitative tool for evaluating the socio-economic as well as transportation resources for every census tract in the State of California
• The tool enables policy analysts to rank census tracts in order of likelihood to provide clean, safe, and economically vibrant environments for their residents
• The tool also enables lay people and members of the public to geographically visualize the census tracts across their state or in their neighborhood

Berkeley, CA

-Negotiated 2020 research agenda to align with legislative calendar and ballot measure timelines-Analyzed demographic impacts of rent control using census and administrative data from county assessors -Shaped the housing discourse in California by publishing policy briefs on the housing shortage-Visualized the above data to model spatial relationships.

Los Angeles, CA

Aurora, CO

Field Organizers were responsible for managing the ground operation, events, volunteer recruitment and regional analytics for Aurora.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Client-facing regional liaison for the Los Angeles district's sales of self-administered small molecule drug in the inflammation & immunology space
• Case management: overseeing all district prescriptions (n=200 per week), including directing prior authorization processes and patient access programs (copay, foundation, extended sampling) in tandem with reimbursement.
• Specialty pharmacy hub: coordinating Rx triage protocols, negotiating service levels
• Program presenter: educational and promotional program speaker for target account audience

San Francisco, CA

• Full product lifecycle and commercialization strategy, including upstream calibration of outcomes-based evidence development, payer coverage engagement, coding (ICD-9/10, CPT, HCPCS) applications, payment optimization.
• Health policy and government affairs advocacy, especially relative to CMS payment regulations (NTAP, New Tech APC, DRG- and APC-reclassifications) and the Affordable Care Act's cost-effectiveness incentives and.
• Successfully mobilized specialty societies, device manufacturers' associations, physician end-users, and other key opinion leaders to pressure CMS to amend its payment rate for a newly-commercialized device
• Spearheaded payer coverage policy advocacy with managed care plans (commercial and Medicaid) and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to successfully overturn multiple negative coverage policies
• Market research, product positioning, and marketing strategy through focus groups and targeting of medical directors, hospital administrators, and physician end-users
• Launched and operated three prior authorization and appeals programs

San Francisco, CA

Master'S Degree, Public Policy Analysis

B.A., Political Science

Activities and Societies: Henderson Center for Social Justice, Berkeley Co-op Association

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Education record