Mohamed Hamad Satti

Mohamed Hamad Satti (Arabic: محمد حمد ساتي, 1913 – 15 March 2005) was a Sudanese physician that is remembered as The father of Medical research in Sudan.

He had a very philanthropic approach to medicine, and was known for being an entertaining educator who linked scientific information with stories from his fieldwork.

[2] He joined Stack Medical Research Laboratories in 1946, before moving to the United Kingdom and completing a postgraduate degree in internal medicine (1952–1954) where he was also the President of the Sudanese Student Society in the UK.

He also became the director of Stack Medical Research Laboratories (1963–1968), succeeding Mansour Ali Haseeb who left the position to become the first Sudanese Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum.

[7] He worked with WHO as a consultant epidemiologist and public health advisor to study the environmental effects of Lake Nasser in 1970.

[10] Satti carried out extensive field and laboratory work on leishmaniasis in eastern and southern Sudan, yellow fever in the Nuba Mountains and Kurmuk,[11] Klumpke paralysis and cutaneous larva migranes in Kordofan, onchocerciasis in Bahr el Ghazal,[8] malaria in Shendi, Hepatitis C, cholera and Leptospirosis on Nuer people,[10] schistosomiasis in Gezira, typhoid in Western Sudan, smallpox on the Beni Halba tribe in Singa, jaundice in Al Qadarif,[12] presbycusis in the Mabans tribe living southern Funj,[6] filariasis in Geneina,[13] the adverse effects of the consumption of high-nitrate-well-water in two villages in North Kordofan, and health aspects of Rahad Irrigation Project.

Satti in the centre in ca. 1952, UK
Satti with his great-grandchild, Ahmad. ca. 1994
1st row from left, Mansour Haseeb , HV Morgan and Satti. 2nd row, far left, Ahmed M. El Hassan . ca. 1965