Intern, Health Equity & Clinical Innovation, Rural Community Engagement

About the Role:

This application is for a 12-week internship role from June - August 2026. Resume review begins in February 2026.

Biogen's Health Equity & Clinical Innovation team is seeking a motivated intern to support health equity driven medical affairs initiatives focused on rural communities. This internship will provide hands-on exposure to how medical affairs integrates health equity principles into disease understanding, evidence generation, scientific education, and external stakeholder/community engagement.

The intern will examine how geography, culture, infrastructure, and trust influence diagnosis, treatment access, clinical research participation, and real-world outcomes in rural settings. Insights generated through this role will directly inform medical affairs strategy, including disease area strategic planning, medical education priorities, feasibility assessments for late-stage development and post-approval studies, and long-term health equity priorities.

This role is ideal for strategic, self-starter candidates interested in medical affairs, clinical research, public health/policy, or healthcare strategy, and who are passionate about advancing equitable, community-informed scientific innovation.

What You'll Do:

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

Medical Affairs Health Equity Strategy Support

• Conduct research on rural health disparities relevant to priority disease areas, including:
  • Diagnostic and care deserts
  • Coverage and access barriers
  • Barriers to clinical research participation and real-world care
• Synthesize insights to inform medical affairs disease strategy, evidence gaps, and scientific priorities
• Support development of a rural health equity engagement framework aligned with Biogen's medical affairs and health equity objectives

• Support medical affairs led evidence development by identifying gaps related to rural and underserved populations
• Translate qualitative community insights into scientifically relevant considerations for medical affairs teams

• Support medical affairs aligned community outreach initiatives with:
  • Community clinics and health systems
  • Local advocacy organizations
  • Trusted community stakeholders
• Assist in planning and participating in community engagement activities to gather medical and scientific insights
• Document and synthesize feedback to inform medical affairs strategy and evidence planning

• Support development of scientifically accurate, culturally appropriate educational materials for rural audiences
• Contribute to disease awareness and clinical research education efforts consistent with medical affairs standards
• Collaborate with internal medical affairs partners to ensure rural health equity insights are reflected in broader scientific initiatives

• 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 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated cultural humility
• Experience conducting literature reviews using PubMed, Embase, or similar databases
• 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

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