Intern, Health Equity & Community-Centered Innovation

Community ManagerCommunity ManagerInternshipRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

44 days ago

Salary

$23 - $29 / hour

Postgraduate DegreeEnglish

Job Description

• 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

Job 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

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