&content_delmundo=Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines in an active medical practice that has spanned 8 decades has won her international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977.
In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines.
Among the international honors bestowed on del Mundo was the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for Outstanding Service to Mankind, handed in 1966 by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the citation as Outstanding Pediatrician and Humanitarian by the International Pediatric Association in 1977. Also in 1977, del Mundo was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
&content_popup=This doctora, as she is often called, was born in Intramuros, Manila on November 27, 1911. She is the sixth of eight children. Her father, Bernardo del Mundo, is a prominent lawyer from Mrinduque. Her mother was a homemaker who carefully attended to them each day.
At the age of 15, Dr. Fe del Mundo entered the University of the Philippines and received an Associate in Arts diploma after two years. She then took up medicine in the same institution. In 1933, she received her medical degree with the highest honor in her class of 70 graduates. In the same year, the Colegio Medico Farmaceurico de Filipinas also awarded her a medal for being the "Most Outstanding Scholar in Medicine".
She placed third in the medical board examinations and started working as an assistant clinical pathologist with her uncle. She also tutored students in mathematics, worked as medical examiner for the National Life Insurance Company, and lectured in medicine at Centro Escolar University and at St. Luke's School of Nursing.
Dr. Fe del Mundo was one of the first who emphasized the prevention of sickness among Filipino children. She saw that a child's health was only given priority only when she/he was sick. She worked hard to make the people realize the need to take care of the health of infants and children in preventing sickness. Indeed, that was a noble step for the children and the future of our country.
Dr. Fe del Mundo received a study grant from President Manuel Quezon and was accepted at Harvard University Medical School for postgraduate work. She was the first woman to break the Harvard tradition by being the only woman enrolled at the male-dominated Harvard Medical School.
She stayed in the United States for five years. During her stay, she was able to take a two-year research fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital. She also attained master's degree in bacteriology at Boston University and even took up public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After returning to the country, she established a children's home that cared for sick children during the Japanese-Philippine war.
Dr. del Mundo founded the Children's Memorial Hospital in Quezon City in 1957 which is still operational today. To this day, she still devotes her time to working for the improvement of pediatrics in the country. Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with the development and care of infants and children, for which the doctora has received various awards.
These are some of her awards:
			Elizabeth Blackwell Award (1966)
			Tandang Sora Award (1976)
			Ramon Magsaysay Award (1979)
			National Scientist (1980)