BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2026--
Inlightened, the tech-enabled insights platform that connects client companies to a vetted network of healthcare professionals, today announced that Rob Ramirez has joined the company as head of strategy. Ramirez brings 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical market research, healthcare insights, and commercial strategy, including senior leadership roles at Pfizer, Ipsos Healthcare, Schlesinger Group (now Trivoca Health), and, most recently, Manifest Health.
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Ramirez is a recognized leader in healthcare market research and a recipient of the Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence and Research Group (PBIRG) President's Award for his contributions to pharmaceutical research, as well as a finalist in Constellation Research's SuperNova Awards for his work advancing the use of collaboration technology in qualitative research. Throughout his career, he has helped pharma, biotech, and research agency clients translate complex healthcare data into commercial decisions.
At Inlightened, Ramirez leads the company's growth strategy and will shape how it serves market researchers, pharma insights teams, and research service providers. His focus includes deepening Inlightened's healthcare professional (HCP) and allied health recruitment offering, expanding service lines for clients running qualitative and quantitative healthcare research, and strengthening client experience as the platform scales.
“Inlightened has built something the industry needs: real relationships with vetted healthcare professionals, paired with the technology to recruit them at speed,” said Ramirez. “After three decades on both the pharma and the agency side, I know how hard it is to reach the right physicians, advanced practice providers, and industry professionals for serious research. That's exactly the problem Inlightened solves, and I'm here to help more researchers see what it can do for them.”
“Rob's reputation in pharma market research speaks for itself, and his client-side perspective is invaluable as we keep growing,” added Shelli Pavone, president and co-founder of Inlightened. “He knows our clients and understands what's at stake when business success depends on reaching the right healthcare experts. We're delighted to have him on the team.”
About Inlightened
Inlightened is the go-to SaaS platform for healthcare innovation. It connects client organizations to on-demand insights, via an unparalleled network of curated, vetted, and engaged experts. In addition to being recognized among Forbes’ Inaugural Next 1000, Inlightened has been featured in Crunchbase, Forbes, and MedCity News. Inlightened was acquired by LocumTenens.com, part of the Jackson Healthcare ® family of companies, in August of 2023, and operates as an independent entity.
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Rob Ramirez, head of strategy at Inlightened
CAIRO (AP) — The Sudanese government accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites including Khartoum airport and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday.
A military spokesperson in Sudan said the government has evidence that four drone strikes that have happened since March 1 came from neighboring Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar airport. It also accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying the drones.
The Sudanese military has been at war with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the RSF stormed the capital. The battles have now shifted towards more drone warfare concentrating in the Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
Sudan has long accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, and U.N. experts and rights groups have also accused it of providing arms to the group. The UAE has rejected the accusation.
The most recent attack came on Monday and targeted the airport in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. The previous attacks were launched towards the Sudanese states of Kordofan, Blue Nile and White Nile.
Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Asim Awad Abdelwahab said at a Tuesday press conference that the government had analyzed data and evidence from a drone that entered Sudanese airspace heading for El-Obeid in Kordofan state on March 17 and found that it had originated from the United Arab Emirates and took off from Ethiopia.
"We do not want to initiate aggression against any country, but whoever attacks us will be met with a response,” Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohi al-Din Salem said in the joint presser.
Ethiopia's foreign ministry in a statement Tuesday said it “rejects (the) baseless accusations.” It accused Sudan of violating its territorial integrity by supporting rebels in the northern Tigray region but said it had exercised restraint from publicizing the violations due to the ties between the two countries.
“It is evident that these hostile actions, as well as the recent and earlier series of allegations by officials of Sudanese armed forces, are undertaken at the behest of external patrons seeking to advance their own nefarious agenda,” the statement said.
Sudan's airport’s gradual reopening last year marked a key step in efforts to restore normal life in Khartoum, with ministries and millions of people starting their return back to the capital and surrounding states. The U.N migration agency said that around 4 million people have returned back to Sudan.
Drone attacks have happened frequently in the war, but Khartoum was considered largely safe until a string of attacks shattered the sense of calm in the capital and central Sudan.
A drone strike Saturday in Omdurman, the capital's sister city, killed five people in a civilian bus and another strike Sunday in central Sudan state of Al Jazirah killed family members, of Abu Agla Kaikal, a commander with the Sudan Shield Forces, a group allied with the Sudanese military, who defected from the RSF earlier in the war.
At least 59,000 people have been killed in the war, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, an independent conflict-monitoring body. Aid groups, however, say the true toll could be much higher, as access to areas of fighting across the vast country remains limited.
FILE - Khartoum International Airport ground workers greet the first domestic Sudan Airways flight landing from Port Sudan, in Khartoum, Sudan, on Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
