Early life and education Mohamed Hamad Satti was born in
Shendi,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in 1913. When he was 15, his father died. Satti then started his medical training working as a medical officer in areas endemic to
Leishmaniasis between 1936 and 1946 including
Singa and
Port-Sudan. 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. Once he was back in Sudan, he was appointed as a medical zoologist, where he started with a study on a
visceral leishmaniasis outbreak in 1956, before going to the United States and completing a master's degree in Public Health at
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. He laid the foundation of several laboratories and
tropical medicine research centres in Sudan which include the National Health Laboratories, the Cancer Institute for Tropical Diseases Research, the Medical Research Council (1966), the School of Tropical Medicine (1966), the National Council for Research (1970), and the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology. He worked with WHO as a consultant epidemiologist and public health advisor to study the environmental effects of
Lake Nasser in 1970. He was the Vice Chairman of the WHO
Onchocerciasis Expert Committee in 1986.
Personal life and death Satti was married to Fatma Hassan el Nor and with her, they had thirteen children. He died from natural causes on 15 March 2005, and was buried in
Faroug Cemetery, Khartoum. == Research ==