Dr. Dely P. Go named Bayani ng Mundo Awardee
Dr. Dely P. Go, was recently named 2025 Bayani ng Mundo honoree by the Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation (PNAAF). This prestigious recognition celebrates her exemplary leadership in nursing, community service, and global health advocacy.
Presented during the annual commemoration of Nurses Week at the Conrad Hotel Manila on January 22, 2026, the award recognizes Filipino nurses in the Philippines and abroad who went beyond the call of duty. Go, widely regarded in New York as a nurse, educator, philanthropist, and civic leader, has been instrumental in touching the lives of many in the Philippines as well as in the United States.
The Bayani ng Mundo award acknowledges her work as president of Nursing Network, LLC, in New Jersey, where she served over 500 nurses through her consulting firm for nursing education and state influence. Her humanitarian legacy includes frontline leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and receiving the UN Women’s HeForShe Award.
A Silliman University alumna and Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate with a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Go exemplifies the Bayani ng Mundo spirit through borderless service in local and international communities. As a visionary leader featured in The Business Vision Magazine, she advances Filipino-American nursing excellence. Her dedication inspires nursing leadership worldwide, promoting service, education, and health equity.
“We at the Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Dely Po Go, DNP, RN, LNHA, as our 2025 Bayani ng Mundo Honoree for her borderless dedication to nursing leadership and community service. Her frontline COVID-19 heroism, global advocacy, and inspiration to serve embody the true Bayani spirit, advancing Filipino nurse excellence worldwide.”
— PNAAF CEO Mindy Ofiana
Go counts among her many concurrent board seats in socio-civic and philanthropic organizations the co-chairmanship with her husband, Harry Go, of the Committee on Community Outreach of the Federation of Independent Legions of Immigrant Philippine American in the North Americas (F.I.L.I.P.I.N.A.S.), which advocates for the creation of livelihood projects in the Philippines, “Where the Road Ends and the Mud Begins”.
This recognition underscores her prominent role among the distinguished nurse heroes celebrated by PNAAF.
Go earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Silliman University in 1978 and became a registered nurse shortly after. Upon migrating to the United States with her husband, Harry, and their children, she pursued graduate studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she completed both her Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice, graduating summa cum laude in both programs.
In recognition of her unprecedented leadership in healthcare entrepreneurship, Silliman University honored Go in 2013 as an Outstanding Sillimanian Awardee (OSA) in the field of Entrepreneurship in Nursing.
