Associate Professor Manisha Nair
Research groups
- Anaemic heart failure: factors associated with progression from severe morbidity to death among pregnant women in India
- Developing a prototype for automated analysis of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS) images using artificial intelligence
- Developing a prototype for automated analysis of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS) images using artificial intelligence
- Effects of gestational weight gain and change in haemoglobin during pregnancy on maternal and fetal outcomes in an Indian population
- Ethnic disparities in congenital heart disease among infants in the UK and the underlying maternal risk factors
- Iron metabolism in pregnancy: a longitudinal study in India using the MaatHRI platform
- Reducing the neglected burden of multimorbidity in children with intellectual disability in India
- Relationships between maternal self-efficacy and maternal and infant wellbeing and outcomes: a mixed methods study in India
Maternal and perinatal Health Research collaboration, India MaatHRI
Developing a peer-support intervention trial to improve post-discharge care and outcomes of preterm babies in rural Uganda (PREPare: PREterm Post-discharge Peer-support care)
Colleges
Manisha Nair
MBBS, MSc, DPhil
Associate Professor and MRC Career Development Fellow
Manisha is a Senior Epidemiologist and MRC Career Development Fellow at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU). She is a clinician by training and specialised in epidemiology and global population health research.
Having research projects in India and Uganda, Manisha has established a UK-India collaborative platform for maternal and perinatal health research (called MaatHRI) and is currently using this platform to conduct large epidemiological studies to improve pregnancy care and outcomes of pregnant women with anaemia.
Her work in India is investigating the risk factors, outcomes and clinical characteristics of heart failure in pregnant women; examining the safety of induction and augmentation of labour in pregnant women with anaemia; examining the difference in coagulation parameters in pregnant women with and without anaemia; and estimating the incidence of selected severe pregnancy complications.
Manisha worked as an epidemiologist for the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death in the UK and the UK Obstetric Surveillance System. Her previous work analysed the characteristics of pregnant women who died and the risk factors for progression from severe morbidity to death among pregnant women in the UK. Manisha's research interests are in the areas of maternal and child health, quality of care and medical education.
Manisha was a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust scholar at the University of Oxford during her DPhil. She was a scholar under the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars (FICRS) programme, National Institutes of Health, USA, and led a team to design a multicentre surveillance study on cardio-metabolic diseases in South Asia.
Manisha previously worked as a consultant for the National Polio Surveillance Project of the World Health Organisation as a Surveillance Medical Officer and State Routine Immunisation Officer in India. She has a MBBS degree from India, MSc in Global Health Science and DPhil in Public Health from University of Oxford, UK.
Recent publications
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Risk factors for labour induction and augmentation: a multicentre prospective cohort study in India.
Journal article
Cheng TS. et al, (2024), Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia, 25
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Maternal and fetal factors associated with stillbirth in singleton pregnancies in 13 hospitals across six states in India: A prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Boo YY. et al, (2024), Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 165, 462 - 473
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Prioritising actions to address stagnating maternal mortality rates globally.
Journal article
van den Akker T. et al, (2024), Lancet, 403, 417 - 419
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Effects of community-based interventions for stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal article
Gwacham-Anisiobi U. et al, (2024), EClinicalMedicine, 67
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Early antenatal risk factors for births before arrival: An unmatched case-control study.
Journal article
Hubble TR. et al, (2023), Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand