The Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and its Member Biographies updated 11 January

Prof Dr Mamoun Yousif Hamid
1999-1999
Prof Hamid was a member of the Standing Commission from April 1999 till August 1999
when he stepped in as a member to replace Hon. Byron Reuben Hove who had passed away
earlier that year. He graduated with an Academic Diploma in Public Health from the
University of London in 1963 and became a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1968. Following his
studies he worked as a Professor of Social Medicine and Child Health at the University of
Khartoum until he became Sudan’s Minister of Health in 1989. Within the Movement he has
been the Vice-President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies, Member of the Executive Committee of Arab Red Crescent Society Council and
was the President of the Sudanese Red Crescent for many years. Prof Hamid was born on
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