Biogen is looking for an Intern, Health Equity & Community-Centered Innovation to join our Medical Affairs team. This is a 12-week internship supporting Biogen's Health Equity & Clinical Innovation team in integrating health equity into core medical affairs operating processes and capabilities, with a focus on assessment, education, and scalable impact.
What You'll Do
- Map how health equity considerations are currently incorporated or absent across key medical affairs activities, including disease strategy development, evidence generation, scientific education, and external engagement.
- 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, such as adding prompts or sections to templates.
- Propose updates to medical strategy and planning templates, evidence generation frameworks, and education and engagement planning tools.
- Develop 1-2 internal medical affairs education modules/presentations focused on understanding and applying health equity principles.
- Create a health equity 'quick reference' guide for disease teams, translating academic concepts into clear, medical affairs-relevant guidance.
- Support development of practical tools to help medical affairs teams ask equity-focused questions, identify gaps, and apply considerations consistently.
- Translate findings into clear insights and visual summaries; support development of briefing materials for leadership.
- Complete at least one Health Equity Disease Literature and Insights Overview, analyzing epidemiology, burden, variation, access, and outcomes.
- Present findings and opportunities to medical affairs and Health Equity team members at the conclusion of the internship.
- Support medical affairs-aligned community outreach initiatives and ad hoc projects as needed.
- Contribute to synthesis decks, briefing documents, and insight summaries for internal stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Health Equity & Clinical Innovation team within Medical Affairs.
Benefits & Compensation
- Hourly wage range: $23.00-$29.00
- Company paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Resource Groups participation
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
