Intern, Health Equity & Community-Centered Innovation
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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