Professor Manisha Nair

Manisha is Professor of Global Health at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She is an adjunct faculty at the Indian Council of Medical Research, RNC Division, New Delhi; Visiting Professor at NHLI, Imperial College London; and Honorary Professor at Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences, Assam. She is a clinician by training and specialised in clinical epidemiology and global population health research. Manisha was a UK Medical Research Council (MRC) career development fellow and recipient of an MRC Transition Support award. Her research focuses on innovative and translational research with key areas including cardiometabolic diseases affecting pregnancy, fetal development and long-term women’s health. Manisha is founder and lead of the Maternal and Perinatal Health Research Collaboration, India (MaatHRI)—a research and training plat