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{{Short description|Filipino pediatrician (1911–2011)}}
{{Philippine name|Villanueva|del Mundo}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Fe del Mundo
| honorific_suffix    = [[Order of Lakandula|OLD]] [[National Scientist of the Philippines|ONS]] [[Order of the Golden Heart|GCGH]]
| image       = Fe_del_Mundo.png
| birth_name  = Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1911|11|27|df=yes}}<ref name="Santos 2018">{{cite web |last=Santos |first=Patricia |title=Who is Fe Del Mundo and what are her greatest achievements? |website=Kami.com.ph - Philippines news. |date=2018-11-28 |url=https://kami.com.ph/84059-who-fe-del-mundo-greatest-achievements.html |access-date=2024-11-19}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2011|8|6|1911|11|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Quezon City]], Philippines
| alma_mater  = [[University of the Philippines Manila]]<br/>[[Boston University]]
| known_for   = [[National Scientist of the Philippines]]
| occupation  = [[Pediatrics|Pediatrician]]
}}

'''Fe Villanueva del Mundo''', {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of Lakandula|OLD]] [[National Scientist of the Philippines|ONS]] [[Order of the Golden Heart|GCGH]]}}, (born '''Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva'''; 27 November 1911 – 6 August 2011<ref name="Santos 2018"/>) was a [[Philippines|Filipino]] [[pediatrics|pediatrician]]. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is known for shaping the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines.<ref name=ActaPaediatrica /><ref name=pcij>{{cite web| last = Lim| first = Fides| title = Woman of Many Firsts| publisher = Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism| date = 2007-08-09| url = http://www.pcij.org/i-report/2007/fe-del-mundo3.html| access-date = 2007-12-26| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081120102303/http://www.pcij.org/i-report/2007/fe-del-mundo3.html| archive-date = November 20, 2008| url-status = dead}}</ref> Her pioneering work in [[pediatrics]] in the Philippines while in active medical practice spanned eight decades.<ref name=contreras>{{cite web|last=Contreras|first=Volt|title=Fe del Mundo: Her children's hospital is 50 as she turns 96|publisher=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|date=25 November 2007|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view_article.php?article_id=102943|access-date=26 December 2007}}{{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref name=navarro2>{{harvnb|Navarro|2000|p=131}}</ref> She gained international recognition, including the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award|Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service]] in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of [[National Scientist of the Philippines]], and in 2010, she was conferred the [[Order of Lakandula]]. She was the first female president of the Philippine Pediatric Society and the first woman to be named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1980. She was also the founder and the first president of the Philippine Pediatric Society, the first Asian to be elected president of the Philippine Medical Association in its 65-years existence, and the first Asian to be voted president of the Medical Woman's International Association.

==Early life and education==
Del Mundo was born at 120 Cabildo Street in the district of [[Intramuros]], [[Manila]], on November 27, 1911. She was one of eight children of Bernardo del Mundo and Paz (née Villanueva; d. 1925).<ref name=ActaPaediatrica>{{cite journal |last1=Kutzsche |first1=S. |title=The humanitarian legacy of Fe del Mundo (1911–2011) who shaped the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines|journal=[[Acta Paediatrica]]|date=2019|volume=108|issue=8|pages=1382–1384|doi=10.1111/apa.14842|pmid= 31077455|s2cid=149454689 }}</ref> Her family home was opposite the [[Manila Cathedral]]. Bernardo was a prominent lawyer from [[Marinduque]] who served one term in the [[Philippine Assembly]] representing the province of [[Tayabas Province|Tayabas]]. Three of her eight siblings died in infancy,<ref name=contreras/> while an older sister died from [[appendicitis]] at age 11.<ref name=navarro2/> The death of her younger sister Elisa, who had made known her desire to become a doctor for the poor, inspired del Mundo to choose a career in medicine.<ref name=navarro2/>

In 1926 at age 15, del Mundo enrolled at the [[University of the Philippines Manila]] and received her Associate of Arts two years later.<ref name="Esterline 1987">{{cite book |last=Esterline |first=Mae H. |author2=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |author2-link=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |chapter=Children's Doctor: Fe del Mundo |title=They Changed Their Worlds: Nine Women of Asia |publisher=University Press of America |publication-place=Lanham, MD |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-8191-6309-7 |oclc=15518300 |page=148}}</ref>  She then went to the [[University of the Philippines College of Medicine|UP College of Medicine]], at the original campus of the [[University of the Philippines Manila|University of the Philippines]] in [[Manila]]. She earned her [[Doctor of Medicine|medical degree]] in 1933, graduating as class [[valedictorian]]. She passed the medical board exam that same year, placing third among the examinees. Her exposure while in medical school to various health conditions afflicting children in the provinces, particularly in [[Marinduque]], led her to choose pediatrics as her specialization.<ref name="Ching 2021">{{cite web |last=Ching |first=Mark Angelo |title=Fe del Mundo: Filipina doctor who brought many historic firsts |website=PEP.ph |date=2021-03-13 |url=https://www.pep.ph/lifestyle/extraordinary/157163/fe-del-mundo-a738-20210313-lfrm?s=p8e77cua2uc3jft7l7npio11lu |access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref>

===Postgraduate studies===

After del Mundo graduated from UPM, President [[Manuel L. Quezon|Manuel Quezon]] offered to pay for her further training, in a medical field of her choice, at any school in the United States.<ref name=navarro2/>
Del Mundo has sometimes been said to have been [[Harvard Medical School]]'s first woman student,<ref name=chua>{{cite web|last=Chua|first=Philip S.|title=Fe del Mundo, M.D.: At 94, still in the practice of Pediatrics|publisher=[[Manila Times|The Sunday Times Magazine]]|date=27 April 2003|url=http://www.feu-alumni.com/announcements/fdm.htm|access-date=26 December 2007}}</ref><ref name=contreras/> the first woman enrolled in pediatrics at the school,<ref name=navarro3>{{harvnb|Navarro|2000|p=132}}</ref> its first Asian student,<ref name=pcij/> the first Asian woman admitted to Harvard,<ref name="Fe del Mundo—EBA">{{cite web |title=Fe del Mundo – Elizabeth Blackwell Award |website=Hobart and William Smith Colleges |date=2022-07-27 |url=https://www.hws.edu/about/history/elizabeth-blackwell/award/del_mundo.aspx |access-date=2024-11-19}}</ref> or even "said to have been admitted to Harvard Medical school by mistake."<ref name="Gambiza 2023">{{cite web |last=Gambiza |first=Cindy |title=Dr Fe del Mundo: Mother of Pediatric Healthcare |website=Historica - Exploring human achievements, experiences, and understanding by sharing our common history and |date=2023-04-12 |url=https://historica.world/dr-fe-del-mundo-mother-of-pediatric-healthcare/ |access-date=2024-11-19}}</ref>
However, according to an archivist at Harvard's Center for the History of Medicine, 
{{quote|While Dr. Del Mundo was remarkable in many ways, the evidence that she was a medical student at Harvard Medical School is largely anecdotal and not well sourced. As far as my research using Harvard Medical School catalogs and records shows, she earned her Medical Degree from the University of the Philippines Manila in 1933, and in 1936, came to Boston to further her studies in pediatrics. The fact that Harvard Medical School did not admit women students and Dr. Del Mundo already earned her medical degree suggests that she was not admitted as a student, even in error, and I cannot find proof that she graduated from Harvard Medical School{{nbsp}}... Instead, it seems more likely that she completed graduate work at Harvard Medical School through an appointment at Boston Children's Hospital{{nbsp}}... del Mundo is listed as an Assistant Physician at Boston Children's Hospital, and a Research Fellow in Pediatrics in 1940. Further suggesting that she was a graduate student and not a medical student, in her autobiographical statement in Women Physicians of the World (1977), Dr. Del Mundo explains "I spent three years of my postgraduate studies at the Children's Hospital in Boston and at Harvard Medical School, one year at the University of Chicago, six months at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and short terms in various pediatric institutions, all to round out my training."{{refn|{{cite web|author= Joan Ilacqua|title=Dr. Fe del Mundo|website=Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library|url=https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=15381|date=November 27, 2018}}}} }}

Harvard had had thousands of Asian students by the time Del Mundo arrived there.<ref name="Wong 2020">{{cite web |last=Wong  |first=Matteo N. |title=The End of the Harvard Century |website=The Harvard Crimson |date=April 23, 2020 |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/4/23/harvard-china-scrutiny/ |access-date=2024-11-18}}</ref><ref name="Gewertz 2004">{{cite web |last=Gewertz |first=Ken |title=History of the Japanese at Harvard |website=Harvard Gazette |date=2004-02-26 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/02/history-of-the-japanese-at-harvard/ |access-date=2024-11-18}}</ref>
Del Mundo returned to Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in 1939 for a two-year research fellowship.<ref name=rmaf>{{cite web| title =The 1977 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service: Fe del Mundo| publisher =[[Ramon Magsaysay Award|Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation]]| url =http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm| access-date =2007-12-26| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071223082110/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm| archive-date =December 23, 2007| url-status =dead}}</ref> She also enrolled at the [[Boston University School of Medicine]], earning a [[Master's degree]] in [[Microbiology|bacteriology]] in 1940.<ref name=navarro3/>

==Medical practice==
Del Mundo returned to the Philippines in 1941, shortly before the [[History of the Philippines (1898–1946)#Japanese occupation and World War II (1941–1945)|Japanese invasion]] of the country. She joined the [[International Red Cross]] and volunteered to care for child-internees then detained at the [[University of Santo Tomas]] internment camp for foreign nationals.<ref name="navarro3"/> She set up a makeshift hospice within the internment camp, and her activities led her to be known as "The Angel of Santo Tomas".<ref name=lim>{{cite web|last=Lim|first=Fides|title=Dr Fe del Mundo: Frail but feisty still at 95|publisher=Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism|date=28 August 2007|url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/58031/PCIJ-Dr-Fe-del-Mundo-Frail-but-feisty-still-at-95|access-date=26 December 2007}}</ref> After the Japanese authorities shut down the hospice in 1943, del Mundo was asked by Manila mayor [[León Guinto]] to head a children's hospital under the auspices of the city government. The hospital was later converted into a full-care medical center to cope with the mounting casualties during the [[Battle of Manila (1945)|Battle of Manila]], and would be renamed the North General Hospital (later, the Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center). Del Mundo would remain the hospital's director until 1948.<ref name=navarro4>{{harvnb|Navarro|2000|p=133}}</ref>

Del Mundo joined the faculty of the University of Santo Tomas, then the [[Far Eastern University]] in 1954. She became the head of the Department of Pediatrics at [[Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation]] for more than two decades. In the 1950s, she established a small medical pediatric clinic to pursue a private practice.<ref name="Abrera & Santillan 2022">{{Cite book |editor-last=Abrera |editor-first=Ma Bernadette L. |editor-last2=Santillan |editor-first2=N. M. R. |title=Identity and Independence: Filipino Women in Times of War and Peace |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361391738 |publisher=Department of National Defense, Philippine Veterans Affairs |year=2022 |isbn=978-621-95754-1-6 |location=Quezon City |pages=153 |chapter=Fe del Mundo |oclc=1356500947}}</ref> Del Mundo founded the Children's Medical Center Foundation in 1957. In 1996, she established the Institute of Maternal and Child Health, an institution that trains doctors and nurses.<ref name="rmaf.org.ph">{{Cite web |title=1977 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Fe Del Mundo |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223082110/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm |archive-date=2007-12-23 |website=rmaf.org.ph}}</ref>

===Establishment of the Children's Medical Center===
[[Image:1957 CMC.jpg|thumb|right|The Children's Medical Center of the Philippines in 1957]]

Frustrated by the bureaucratic constraints in working for a government hospital, del Mundo desired to establish her own pediatric hospital.<ref name=navarro4/> Towards that end, she sold her home and most of her personal effects,<ref name=lim/><ref name=navarro4/> and obtained a sizable loan from the [[Government Service Insurance System#frb-inline|GSIS]] (the Government Service Insurance System) in order to finance the construction of her own hospital. The Children's Medical Center, a 107-bed hospital located in [[Quezon City]], was inaugurated in 1957 as the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. The hospital was expanded in 1966 through the establishment of an Institute of Maternal and Child Health, the first institution of its kind in [[Asia]].<ref name="rmaf"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Fe Del Mundo (1911 – 2011): The Legacy |website=Fe Del Mundo Medical Center |date=2018-07-11 |url=https://www.fedelmundo.com.ph/history-legacy/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105130245/https://www.fedelmundo.com.ph/history-legacy/ |archive-date=2023-01-05 |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-11-18}}</ref>

[[Image:FDMMC.JPG|thumb|The Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center (Children's Medical Center of the Philippines, Established 1957)]]

In 1958, del Mundo conveyed her personal ownership of the hospital to a board of trustees.<ref name=lim/>

Dr. Fe del Mundo lived on the second floor of the Children's Medical Center in Quezon City and continued making early morning rounds until she was 99 years old.<ref name="Schlaffer 2017">{{cite web |last=Schlaffer |first=Natasha |title=The Angel of Santo Tomas: Fe Del Mundo – Femmes Fatales |website=Sites at Penn State |date=2017-06-27 |url=https://sites.psu.edu/womeninhistory/2017/06/27/the-angel-of-santo-tomas-fe-del-mundo/ |access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref><ref name="Musil 2018">{{cite web |last=Musil |first=Steven |title=Google Doodle honors Fe Del Mundo, pioneering Filipina pediatrician |website=CNET |date=2018-11-27 |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/google-doodle-honors-fe-del-mundo-pioneering-filipino-pediatrician/ |access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref>

=== Establishment of the Children's Medical Center Foundation ===
When she founded the Children's Medical Center Foundation in 1957, she was able to bring medical care to Filipinos in the rural areas of the Philippines who had little to no access to health care. This foundation saved thousands of children by establishing family planning clinics and treating preventable health issues such as poor nutrition and dehydration.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Later life and death==
Del Mundo was still active in her practice of pediatrics into her 90s. She died of cardiac arrest on August 6, 2011, three months before her 100th birthday, and was buried at the [[Libingan ng mga Bayani]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Salaverria |first=Leila B. |date=2011-08-07 |title=Beautiful life as doctor to generations of kids, 99 |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/37419/beautiful-life-as-doctor-to-generations-of-kids-99 |publisher=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]}}</ref>

Medicine in the Philippines was revolutionized by Dr. Fe del Mundo. She made numerous breakthroughs in the field of pediatrics from immunization, treatment of jaundice, and providing accessible health care to countless families living in poverty.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Research and innovations==
Del Mundo was noted for her pioneering work on [[infectious disease]]s in Philippine communities. Undeterred by the lack of well-equipped laboratories in post-war Philippines, she unhesitatingly sent specimens or blood samples for analysis abroad.<ref name=navarro4/> In the 1950s, she pursued studies on [[dengue fever]], a common malady in the Philippines, of which little was known at the time.<ref name=navarro4/> Her clinical observations on dengue, and the findings of research she later undertook on the disease are said to "have led to a fuller understanding of dengue fever as it afflicts the young".<ref name=rmaf/> She authored over a hundred articles, reviews, and reports in [[medical journal]]s<ref name=rmaf/> on such diseases as dengue, [[polio]] and [[measles]].{{sfn|Navarro|2000|pp=139–40}} She also authored ''Textbook of Pediatrics'', a fundamental medical text used in Philippine medical schools.<ref name=navarro5>{{harvnb|Navarro|2000|p=136}}</ref>

Del Mundo was active in the field of [[public health]], with special concerns towards rural communities. She organized rural extension teams to advise mothers on [[breastfeeding]] and child care.<ref name=lim/> and promoted the idea of linking hospitals to the community through the public immersion of physicians and other medical personnel to allow for greater coordination among health workers and the public for common health programs such as immunization and nutrition.<ref name=navarro5/> She called for the greater integration of midwives into the medical community, considering their more visible presence within rural communities. Notwithstanding her own devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]],<ref name=contreras/><ref name=rmaf/><ref name=lim/> she was an advocate of [[family planning]] and [[population control]].<ref name=lim/>

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Del Mundo was also known for having devised an [[Neonatal intensive care unit|incubator]] made out of [[bamboo]],<ref name=navarro5/> designed for use in rural communities without electrical power.<ref name=lim/>

==Awards and recognition==
[[File:National Scientist Dr. Fe Del Mundo.jpg|thumb|150px|Del Mundo as a National Scientist of the Philippines, [[National Academy of Science and Technology]]]]

In 1980, del Mundo was declared as a [[National Scientist of the Philippines]],<ref name="National Scientist 2017">{{cite web |title=Del Mundo, Fe profile |website=Order of the National Scientist |date=2017-08-18 |url=https://members.nast.ph/index.php/list-of-national-scientist/details/3/14 |access-date=2024-11-18}}</ref> the first Filipino woman to be so named.

Among the international honors bestowed on del Mundo was the [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges#Elizabeth Blackwell Award|Elizabeth Blackwell Award]] for Outstanding Service to Mankind, handed in 1966 by [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Elizabeth Blackwell Award |website=Hobart and William Smith Colleges |date=2022-07-27 |url=https://www.hws.edu/about/history/elizabeth-blackwell/award/default.aspx |access-date=2024-11-19}}</ref> and the citation as Outstanding Pediatrician and Humanitarian by the International Pediatric Association in 1977.<ref name="Romulo 2024">{{cite web |last=Romulo |first=Khasian Eunice |title=Fe V. Del Mundo |website=Home |date=2024-06-01 |url=https://spheres.dost.gov.ph/profiles/474-fe-v-del-mundo |access-date=2024-11-19}}</ref> Also in 1977, del Mundo was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.<ref>{{cite web |title=Del Mundo, Fe |website=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation Philippines |date=2024-08-29 |url=https://rmaward.asia/rmawardees/del-mundo-fe/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |at=On the CITATION tab}}</ref>

Dr. Fe del Mundo was an honorary member of the American Pediatric Society<ref name="Fe del Mundo—EBA"/> and an advisory board member of the [[World Health Organization]]'s International Pedatric Association.<ref name="Gambiza 2023"/>

In 2008, she received the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Award of the [[AY Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ayfoundation.com.ph/blessed-theresa-award|title=Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Award|publisher=AY Foundation|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502063223/http://www.ayfoundation.com.ph/blessed-theresa-award|archive-date=May 2, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On April 22, 2010, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo awarded del Mundo the [[Order of Lakandula]] with the rank of ''Bayani'' at the [[Malacañan Palace]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://balita.ph/2010/04/23/pgma-confers-the-lakandula-award-with-the-rank-of-bayani-to-dr-fe-del-mundo-renowned-pediatrician/|title=PGMA confers the Lakandula award with the rank of Bayani to Dr. Fe Del Mundo, national scientist|access-date=24 April 2010|archive-date=October 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001142257/http://balita.ph/2010/04/23/pgma-confers-the-lakandula-award-with-the-rank-of-bayani-to-dr-fe-del-mundo-renowned-pediatrician/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Posthumously, she was conferred the Grand Collar of the [[Order of the Golden Heart]] Award by President [[Benigno Aquino III]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dost.gov.ph/knowledge-resources/news/36-2011-news/260-pnoy-confers-order-of-the-golden-heart-to-del-mundo-national-scientist|title=PNoy confers Order of the Golden Heart to del Mundo, National Scientist|publisher=News, Department of Science and Technology|date=13 August 2011|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726045246/http://www.dost.gov.ph/knowledge-resources/news/36-2011-news/260-pnoy-confers-order-of-the-golden-heart-to-del-mundo-national-scientist|archive-date=July 26, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On November 27, 2018, a [[Google Doodle]] was displayed to celebrate del Mundo's 107th birthday.<ref name="google.com 2018">{{cite web |title=Fe del Mundo's 107th Birthday |website=google.com |date=2018-11-27 |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/fe-del-mundos-107th-birthday/ |access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/27/tuesdays-google-doodle-honors-pediatrician-fe-del-mundo/#28fed8304120|title=Tuesday's Google Doodle Honors Pediatrician Fe del Mundo|last=Smith|first=Kiona N.|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
===Articles===
* {{cite journal |last=Del Mundo |first=Fe |title=A Survey of Hospital-Born Prematures in the Philippines |journal=Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=225–227 |date=April 1962 |url=https://journals.lww.com/obgynsurvey/citation/1962/04000/A_SURVEY_OF_HOSPITAL_BORN_PREMATURES_IN_THE.19.aspx |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |doi=10.1097/00006254-196204000-00019 |publication-place=Philadelphia, PA |issn=0029-7828 |oclc=818904997 |ref=none|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=F. |last2=Adiao |first2=A. C. |title=Lactation and child spacing as observed among 2,102 rural Filipino mothers |journal=The Philippine Journal of Pediatrics |volume=19 |issue=3 |date=1970 |issn=0031-7667 |pmid=12305373 |pages=128–132 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Soriano |first2=Lolita |title=Clinical Observations on Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Metro Manila (1977-1979) |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=1 |year=1979 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=22–34 |url=https://nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201979%20Transactions%20Volume%201/NAST%201979%20Transactions%20Volume%201%20(FULL).pdf#page=27 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last=Del Mundo |first=Fe |title=Linking Hospitals with the Community and Medical Reorientation Relevant to Primary Health Care in the Philippines |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=4 |year=1982 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=163–178 |url=https://nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201982%20Transactions%20Volume%204/NAST%201982%20Transactions%20Volume%204%20(FULL).pdf#page=171 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Cruz |first2=Ana Maria |last3=Kleiner |first3=Hilda Lin |last4=Sales |first4=Dory |title=Bacteria Identified in Diarrheal Stools of Early Childhood and Sensitivity Tests, Metro Maninla (1980–1982) |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=6 |year=1984 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=249–265 |url=https://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201984%20Transactions%20Volume%206/Medicine%201%20.%20Bacterial%20Identified%20in%20Diarrheal%20Stools%20of%20Early%20Childhood%20and%20Sensitivity%20Tests.pdf |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Fonte |first2=Ana Luz May V. |last3=Cruz |first3=Carina |title=Low Birth Weight Neonates and Surrounding Factors: A Situation Study in Communities of 11 Health Regions of the Philippines (1983–85) |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=8 |year=1986 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=159–173 |url=https://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201986%20Transactions%20Volume%208/HS%201.%20Low%20Birth%20Weight%20Noenates%20and%20Sur%20Rounding%20Factors.%20%20%20%20%20Fe%20del%20Mundo,%20et%20al..pdf |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Santos |first2=Jaime |last3=Santos |first3=Cynthia |title=Pseudomonas Infections in Hospitalized Infants and Children, Metro Manila 1984 |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=7 |year=1985 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=143–152 |url=https://nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201985%20Transactions%20Volume%207/HS%202%20.%20PSEUDOMONAS%20Infections%20in%20Hospitalized%20Infants%20and%20Children%20Metro%20Manila%201984%20%20Fe%20del%20Mundo,%20et%20al..pdf |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Evangelista |first2=Thaddeus |last3=Arciaga |first3=Mario |title=Trends in the Health and Nutrition of Filipino Children (0-19 Years) in the Decade 1973 to 1983 |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=9 |year=1987 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=461–494 |url=https://nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201987%20Transactions%20Volume%209/HS%201%20.%20Trends%20in%20the%20Health%20and%20Nutrition%20of%20Filipino%20Children%200-19%20Years%20in%20the%20Decade%201973%20to%201983%20%20Fe%20Del%20Mundo,%20et%20al..pdf |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Bernardino |first2=Sylvia C. |title=Clinical Observations on the First Varicella Vaccinees in the Philippines with Live Attenuated Oka Strain Vaccine (1987) |journal=Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila, Philippines |volume=10 |year=1988 |issn=0115-8848 |oclc=655377546 |pages=437–446 |url=https://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf%20files/Publications/NAST%20Transactions/NAST%201988%20Transactions%20Volume%2010/HS%205%20.%20Clinical%20Observations%20on%20the%20First%20Varicella%20Vaccinees%20in%20the%20Philippines%20with%20Live%20Attenuated%20OKA%20Strain%20Vaccine%201987.pdf |ref=none}}
   
===Books===
* {{cite book |last=Del Mundo |first=Fe |title=Textbook of Pediatrics and Child Health |publisher=JMC Press |publication-place=Quezon City |year=2000 |orig-year=1976 |edition=3rd |isbn=978-971-11-1086-4 |oclc=989457930 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Del Mundo |first1=Fe |last2=Estrada |first2=Felix A. |author3=Nutrition Center of the Philippines |title=A Manual on Infant Nutrition with Emphasis on Breastfeeding for Philippine Medical Colleges |publisher=Nutrition Center of the Philippines |publication-place=Metro Manila |year=1985 |oclc=398000401 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=del Mundo  |first=Fe |title=Selected papers of Fe del Mundo |publisher=National Academy of Science and Technology |publication-place=Manila |year=1986 |isbn=978-971-8538-02-9 |oclc=32952404 |ref=none}}

===Chapters===
* {{cite book |last=Del Mundo |first=Fe |chapter=Problems and Findings from the TBA Program in the Philippines |chapter-url=https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/be57fbe3-c9af-420d-bc56-169361bbd928/content#page=6 |editor-last=Peng |editor-first=J. Y. |editor-last2=MacIntyre |editor-first2=Reginald |editor-last3=Keovichit |editor-first3=Srisomang |title=Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in Family Planning: Proceedings of an international seminar held in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, 19-26 July 1974 |publisher=International Development Research Center |publication-place=Ottawa, Canada |year=1974 |isbn=978-0-88936-045-7 |oclc=38268371 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Del Mundo |first=Fe |chapter=Pitfalls in the Promotion of Breastfeeding |editor-last=Valyasevi |editor-first=Aree |editor-last2=Baker |editor-first2=Jean |title=Proceedings of the Workshop on Breastfeeding and Supplementary Foods |publisher=United Production Press |publication-place=Bangkok |year=1980 |oclc=495289459 |pages=20–22 |url=https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaap081.pdf#page=30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221022519/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAP081.pdf#page%3D30 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 21, 2017 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dionisio-Garcia |first1=F. |last2=Del Mundo |first2=F. |last3=Bondoc-dela Cruz |first3=V. |chapter=Utilization of Mothers for some Aspects of Primary Health Care in Philippine Barangays (Villages)|editor-last=del Mundo |editor-first=Fe |editor-last2=Ines-Cuyegkeng |editor-first2=Elena |editor-last3=Aviado |editor-first3=Domingo M. |title=Primary Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Global Concern |publisher=Springer US |publication-place=Boston, MA |date=1983 |isbn=978-1-4613-3610-5 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4613-3608-2_43 |oclc=7322295444 |ref=none}}

===Thesis===
* {{cite thesis <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |title=Hospital infections and the effects of ultraviolet radiation |year=1940 |oclc=7941617 |degree=MS |institution=Boston University |url=https://open.bu.edu/bitstream/handle/2144/4142/Del_Mundo_1940_web.pdf?sequence=2 |doi=10.15530/urtec-2017-2670073 |hdl=2144/4142 |ref=none}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
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* {{cite book |last=Navarro|first=Mariechel J. |year=2000 |title=National Scientists of the Philippines (1978–1998)|publisher=Anvil Publishing |location=Pasig, Philippines |isbn=9712709329 |oclc=46475493 |pages=131–140}}

==Further reading==
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* {{cite journal |last1=Albano |first1=Joselv E |last2=Mirhan |first2=Janelle Lara G |last3=Bansal |first3=Anushree |last4=Jayakumar |first4=Dheeraj |title=Dr. Fe Del Mundo: The Pioneer Who Transformed Pediatrics and Child Healthcare in the Philippines |journal=Cureus |date=2024-08-29 |issn=2168-8184 |pmid=39347137 |pmc=11438303 |doi=10.7759/cureus.68109 |doi-access=free}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |last=Pirani |first=Fiza |title=Who was Fe del Mundo? Google honors Filipino doctor, first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School |website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=2018-11-27 |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/world/who-was-del-mundo-google-honors-filipino-doctor-first-woman-admitted-harvard-medical-school/oStEMNmKc5KEz27R9X4etN/ |access-date=2020-06-20}}
* {{cite web |title=Profile forDel Mundo, Fe M.D., M.A. Pediatrics |website=National Academy of Science and Technology |date=2007-11-30 |url=http://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/pro_delmundo.htm |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080118172404/http://www.nast.dost.gov.ph/pro_delmundo.htm |archive-date=2008-01-18 |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-11-18}}
* {{cite web |title=1977 award citation for Fe Del Mundo |website=Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationDelMundoFe.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426164527/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationDelMundoFe.htm |archive-date=2012-04-26 |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-11-18}}
* {{cite web |title=1977 award biography of Fe Del Mundo |website=Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223082110/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDelMundoFe.htm |archive-date=2007-12-23 |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-11-18}}

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