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Manisha is Professor of Global Health at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She is also Visiting Professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London, UK and Honorary Professor at Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences, Assam, India. 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.

Manisha is founder and lead of the Maternal and Perinatal Health Research Collaboration, India (MaatHRI)—a network of 16 hospitals across six Indian states, and is using this platform to conduct large epidemiological studies to improve maternal and foetal outcomes. Through MaatHRI she has created a large data resource that includes clinical, biochemical and imaging data from pregnant women and newborns in India. She also co-leads the AI-FoCUS Solutions programme (Artificial Intelligence–powered Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Solutions), which aims to develop a software platform that leverages cutting-edge multimodal AI algorithms to improve equitable access to echocardiography for early detection of cardiac problems in resource-limited settings. 

Her research focuses on improving the health of mothers and babies globally through innovative and translational research with key areas including cardiometabolic diseases affecting pregnancy, fetal development and long-term women’s health. She developed the FoCUS Solutions training resource, a freely available self-learning tool to enable non-cardiologists to acquire skills in imaging the heart using point-of-care cardiac ultrasound.

Previously, she worked as an epidemiologist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit where she developed the English Maternal Morbidity Outcome indicator, analysed the characteristics of pregnant women who died and identified risk factors for progression from severe morbidity to death among pregnant women in the UK. She worked as a consultant for the National Polio Surveillance Project (India) of the World Health Organization as a surveillance medical officer and state routine immunisation officer in several Indian States.

Manisha was a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust scholar at the University of Oxford during her DPhil (PhD). 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. She has a MBBS degree from India, an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil (PhD) in Public Health from the University of Oxford, UK.