Co-op, Health Equity & Next Generation Insights

About the Role:

This application is for a 6-month student role from July - December 2026. Resume review begins in February 2026.

Biogen's Health Equity & Clinical Innovation team is launching a medical affairs focused co-op to examine how Gen Z health behaviors, trust dynamics, and digital ecosystems should inform the future of disease strategy, evidence generation, and scientific engagement.

This role will evaluate how Gen Z defines health and illness, seeks medical information, evaluates scientific credibility, and engages with healthcare systems and clinical research. Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of social media, AI-enabled tools, online communities, and digital misinformation on scientific trust, benefit-risk understanding, and participation in care and research.

Insights generated through this co-op will directly inform medical affairs strategy and Development 2030 planning, including disease-level planning, feasibility considerations, patient engagement models, scientific education approaches, and long-term access and equity strategies. Ideal candidates are analytically curious, digitally fluent, culturally aware, and interested in medical affairs, health equity, and generational change in medicine.

What You'll Do:

As an intern, you will support various aspects of our teams vital activities including:

Medical Affairs Gen Z Engagement Strategy

• Support development of a Gen Z/young millennial focused medical affairs engagement strategy addressing:
  • Health beliefs, care-seeking behaviors, and access patterns
  • Scientific trust, misinformation, and credibility assessment
  • Digital health utilization and AI-driven information pathways
  • Implications for clinical research participation and post-approval engagement
• Translate Gen Z insights into actionable medical affairs considerations for disease strategy, evidence gaps, and education planning

• Contribute to medical affairs insight generation by identifying evidence gaps related to younger and digitally engaged populations
• Support assessment of:
  • Late-stage development and real-world evidence implications
  • Patient-reported outcomes and experience considerations
  • Feasibility and engagement considerations for Gen Z relevant study designs
• Translate qualitative and digital insights into scientifically relevant summaries for internal use

• Support medical affairs aligned community engagement efforts, including:
  • Participation in health, research, or educational community events
  • Collection of structured survey and qualitative insight data
• Assist with synthesis of community insights into medical affairs ready reports that inform strategy and planning

• Support development of scientifically accurate, culturally appropriate educational concepts/topics relevant for Gen Z audiences
• Contribute to internal discussions on:
  • Benefit-risk communication
  • Disease education approaches

• Complete at least two 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 to medical affairs and Health Equity stakeholders at the conclusion of the co-op

• 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

• Strong interest in medical affairs, health equity, pharmaceutical development, rural health, public health, or clinical research
• Strong interest in medical affairs, health equity, public health/policy, or clinical research
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience conducting literature reviews using PubMed, Embase, or similar databases
• Digital fluency and familiarity with Gen Z platforms and online health ecosystems
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable scientific insights
• Comfortable working independently and in cross-functional, matrixed teams
• 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

• Company paid holidays
• Commuter benefits
• Employee Resource Groups participation
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year