Biogen

Intern, Health Equity & Community-Centered Innovation

Biogen

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $23 - $29 per hour

Job Level

Entry Level

About the role

  • Support various aspects of our team's vital activities including:
  • Map how health equity considerations are currently incorporated—or absent—across key medical affairs activities, including:
  • Disease strategy development and medical planning
  • Evidence generation and Phase IV / real-world evidence planning
  • Scientific education, disease materials, and content development
  • External scientific engagement and stakeholder planning
  • Review existing medical affairs templates, guidance documents, and workflows to assess consistency and completeness of equity integration
  • Identify integration opportunities to embed health equity into existing standard medical affairs processes (e.g., added prompts, sections, or decision considerations)
  • Propose updates to:
  • Medical strategy and planning templates
  • Evidence generation frameworks
  • Education (internal and external) and engagement planning tools
  • Ensure all recommendations are practical, scalable, and aligned with medical affairs governance and compliance expectations
  • Develop 1–2 internal medical affairs education modules/presentations focused on understanding health equity and applying health equity principles in day-to-day medical affairs work
  • Create a health equity “quick reference” for disease teams, translating academic and public health concepts into clear, medical affairs relevant guidance
  • Support development of practical tools that help medical affairs teams:
  • Ask the right equity-focused questions during planning
  • Identify evidence and education gaps
  • Apply equity considerations consistently across disease areas
  • Translate findings into clear, medical affairs ready insights and visual summaries
  • Support development of briefing materials and presentations for medical affairs and Health Equity leadership
  • Contribute to internal alignment by framing equity as an enabler of scientific rigor, relevance, and impact
  • Complete at least one Health Equity Disease Literature and Insights Overviews aligned with medical affairs standards, including:
  • Epidemiology and disease burden
  • Demographic and geographic variation
  • Severity, comorbidities, and outcomes
  • Economic burden and access challenges, Diagnostic delay
  • Racial/ethnic, age, and gender differences
  • Quality of life and caregiver impact
  • Published patient reported outcomes, patient experience and real-world data
  • Present findings including opportunities for Biogen medical teams to medical affairs and Health Equity team members at the conclusion of the internship
  • Support medical affairs aligned community outreach initiatives
  • Support ad hoc medical affairs or Health Equity projects as needed
  • Contribute to synthesis decks, briefing documents, and insight summaries for internal stakeholders

Requirements

  • Strong interest in medical affairs, health equity, pharmaceutical development, rural health, public health, or clinical research
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated cultural humility
  • Excellent analytical, synthesis, and organizational skills
  • Ability to synthesize scientific, qualitative, and community-based insights into clear, actionable recommendations
  • Organized, proactive, and comfortable working independently in a large, matrixed environment
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
  • At least 18 years of age prior to the scheduled start date.
  • Currently enrolled in an accredited community college, college, university or skills program/apprenticeship.
  • Currently enrolled in a graduate (any year) or undergraduate (ideally rising senior) level program focused in: Medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, biology, clinical research, healthcare administration, health policy, or other healthcare related fields.
  • Candidates from other majors such as communications, sociology, psychology, anthropology, public relations, or related disciplines with strong relevance to health equity and medical affairs will also be considered
Benefits
  • Company paid holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employee Resource Groups participation
  • 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
medical strategy developmentevidence generationreal-world evidence planningscientific educationcontent developmentdata synthesisanalytical skillscommunity outreachhealth equity principlespublic health concepts
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationcultural humilityorganizational skillsproactive attitudeindependent worksynthesis of insightscollaborationpresentation skillsattention to detail