Co-op, Health Equity & Next Generation Insights

Role Summary

Biogen’s Health Equity & Clinical Innovation team is launching a medical affairs co-op to study Gen Z health behaviors, trust dynamics, and digital ecosystems to inform disease strategy, evidence generation, and scientific engagement. The role will evaluate how Gen Z defines health and illness, seeks medical information, assesses credibility, and engages with healthcare systems and clinical research, with emphasis on social media, AI-enabled tools, online communities, and digital misinformation on trust and participation. Insights will inform medical affairs strategy and planning, and the ideal candidate is analytically curious, digitally fluent, culturally aware, and interested in health equity and generational change in medicine.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Evidence Generation & Scientific Insights
  • 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
• External Engagement & Community Insights
  • 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
• Medical Education & Scientific Communication
  • 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
• Health Equity Disease Literature & Insights Reviews
  • 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
• Additional Responsibilities
  • 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

Qualifications

• 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
• Eligibility to participate in Biogen Internship or Co-op Program: Legal authorization to work in the U.S.; At least 18 years of age prior to the start date; Currently enrolled in an accredited program

Skills

• 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

Education

• 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