Mr Manas Chacko MPH

Department of Applied Health Sciences
PhD student

Contact details

Email: mxc1284@student.bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @manaschacko

Address: Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Manas is an NIHR RIGHT PhD scholar at the University of Birmingham's College of Medicine and Health. His research focuses on measuring multimorbidity treatment burden in primary care settings. He aims to develop and validate a tool to assess the burden of managing multiple long-term conditions, particularly in resource-limited settings.

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Qualifications

Master of Public Health, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Trivandrum, 2018
BSc in Nursing, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Karnataka, 2011

Biography

Manas Chacko is a public health researcher with over six years of experience managing health research studies non-communicable diseases. He holds a postgraduate degree in Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. His core expertise includes epidemiology, biostatistics, and project management.

Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, Manas worked as a Clinical Research Analyst at Aster Medcity Hospital, where he managed several clinical research studies across various specialties. His responsibilities included designing study protocols, analysing datasets, and interpreting results. He has played a major role in several large-scale research initiatives, most notably serving as the national project manager for the Indian Council of Medical Research funded National Heart Failure Registry. He has also contributed to research studies and clinical trials focused on stroke prevention, coronary heart disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

Manas is currently pursuing a PhD in Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham, funded by the NIHR RIGHT programme. His doctoral research focuses on measuring multimorbidity treatment burden in primary care settings in India, with the aim of developing and validating tools to assess the impact of managing multiple long-term conditions, particularly in resource-limited settings. In addition to his doctoral work, Manas is actively involved in the NCD Flood India project, where he supports the development of data collection tools and a project database.

Doctoral research

PhD title: Measuring multimorbidity treatment burden in primary care settings. Expected completion date: 2028

Research

Patient-reported outcome measures in multimorbidity
Non-communicable diseases (NCD)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kishore, A, Borgohain, R, Puthenveedu, DK, Rajan, R, Pal, PK, Kandadai, R-M, Yadav, R, Mehta, S, Kumar, H, Kumar, N, Kukkle, PL, Desai, S, Shetty, K, Wadia, P, Aggarwal, A, Agarwal, PA, Abbas, MM, Krishnan, S, Madathiparambil Radhakrishnan, D, Wali, GM, Srivastava, A, Kamble, N, Ferreira, TMDC, Lal, V, Kumar Sreelatha, AA, Gonzalez-Ricardo, L-G, Chacko, M & Sharma, M 2025, 'Demographic and Clinical Profiles of Parkinson's Disease in India: Observations from a Nation-Wide Multicenter Study', Movement Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.30310

Reddy, C, Pillai, K, Joshua, S, Nair, A, Chavotiya, H, Chacko, M & Kishore, A 2025, 'Modified Ratio of Tremor/Postural Instability Gait Difficulty Score as an Indicator of Short-Term Outcomes of Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease', Journal of Movement Disorders, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 165-169. https://doi.org/10.14802/jmd.24175

Pillai, KS, Rajeswari, P, Kamble, RB, Gopalan nair santhamma, S, Chacko, M, Jayakrishnan, V, Ramachandran, R, Avarachan, A & Kishore, A 2025, 'Multimodality Brain Imaging Markers in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Subtypes and Parkinson's Disease', Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 664-669. https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.14346

Sainadh, K, Joshua, S, Manappat, AS, Cherkil, S, Chacko, M & Panikar, D 2025, 'Neuropsychological Profiling of Colloid Cyst Patients: Domains Affected and Long-term Outcomes', Neurology India, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 77-81. https://doi.org/10.4103/ni.ni_919_22

Chovatiya, H, Pillai, K, Reddy, C, Thalakkattu, A, Avarachan, A, Chacko, M & Kishore, A 2025, 'Video-Oculography for Enhancing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Early Oculomotor Dysfunction in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy', Journal of Movement Disorders, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 77-86. https://doi.org/10.14802/jmd.24171

Unni, JC, Chacko, M, Jacob, J & Warrier, A 2024, 'Randomized control trial on impact of clinical pharmacist led interventions on antibiotic stewardship program in children 0 to 18 years age in a tertiary care hospital in southern India', American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 570-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.11.010

Babu, A, Mizaj, Z, Thomas, J & Chacko, M 2023, 'Clinical significance of myositis-specific and myositis-associated antibody profiles in dermatomyositis', Indian Dermatology Online Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 55-60. https://doi.org/10.4103/idoj.idoj_188_22

Thottuvelil, SR, Chacko, M, Warrier, AR, Nair, MP & Rajappan, AK 2023, 'Comparison of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) as marker of adverse prognosis in patients with infective endocarditis', Indian Heart Journal, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 465-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2023.10.008

Dain, CP, Ganapathi, S, Geevar, Z, Harikrishnan, S, Ammu, JV & Chacko, M 2021, 'The traditional and modifiable risk factors of coronary artery disease – a community-based cross-sectional study among 2 populations', Medicine; analytical reviews of general medicine, neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, and pediatries, vol. 100, no. 39, e27350. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027350

Chacko, M, Sarma, PS, Harikrishnan, S, Zachariah, G & Jeemon, P 2019, 'Family history of cardiovascular disease and risk of premature coronary heart disease: A matched case-control study', Wellcome Open Research, vol. 5, pp. 70. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15829.2

Harikrishnan, S, Bahl, A, Roy, A, Mishra, A, Prajapati, J, Nanjappa, MC, Sethi, R, Guha, S, Satheesh, S, Chacko, M, Ganapathi, S & Jeemon, P 2019, 'National Heart Failure Registry, India: Design and methods', Indian Heart Journal, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 488-491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2019.12.005

Comment/debate

Kishore, A, Borgohain, R, Puthenveedu, DK, Rajan, R, Pal, PK, Kandadai, R-M, Yadav, R, Mehta, S, Kumar, H, Kumar, N, Kukkle, PL, Desai, S, Shetty, K, Wadia, PM, Aggarwal, A, Agarwal, PA, Abbas, MM, Krishnan, S, Radhakrishnan, DM, Wali, GM, Srivastava, A, Kamble, N, Ferreira, TMDC, Lal, V, Kumar Sreelatha, AA, Gonzalez-Ricardo, L-G, Chacko, M & Sharma, M 2025, 'Reply to: "Early Indian Age at Onset of Parkinson's: A Case for a Gene-Environment Lens"', Movement Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.70053