Mansour Ali Haseeb

Professor Mansour Ali Haseeb FRCP FRCPh
منصور علي حسيب
Haseeb addressing the WHO's General Council after receiving the Shousha Prize in 1973
Born	1 January 1910 Al Gitaina, Sudan
Died	29 September 1973(1973-09-29) (aged 63) Omdurman, Sudan
Other names	Godfather of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine[1]
Education	Kitchener School of Medicine
Awards	Shousha Prize, WHO Order of the Star of Ethiopia Order of Merit, United Arab Republic
Scientific career
Fields	Bacteriology Parasitology
Institutions	University of Khartoum Stack Medical Research Laboratories
Director of the Stack Medical Research Laboratories
In office 1952–1963
President	Sovereignty Council (1956–1958) Ibrahim Abboud
Preceded by	Robert Kirk
Succeeded by	Mohamed Hamad Satti

Mansour Ali Haseeb FRCP FRCPh (Arabic: منصور علي حسيب; 1 January 1910 – 29 September 1973) was a Sudanese professor of microbiology and parasitology.

Haseeb was born into a family of scholars. He graduated with a diploma from the Kitchener School of Medicine and continued his studies in the United Kingdom, obtaining a Diploma in Bacteriology. Haseeb worked in different medical institutions in Sudan before being appointed Director of the Stack Medical Research Laboratories. Further, he became the first Sudanese Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum and chairman of the Sudan Medical Research Council.

Haseeb made valuable contributions through his services in vaccine production and implementation programs. In addition, he championed medical research in Sudan to the extent that he is remembered as the "Godfather of Sudan's Laboratory Medicine".

Haseeb also was the Mayor of Omdurman and died suddenly aged 63, shortly after receiving the Shousha Prize from the World Health Organization.