Alice Fiddian-Green

Alice Fiddian-Green is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Nursing and Health Professions. Dr. Fiddian-Green teaches in both the MPH and BSPH programs and is currently chair of the Health Professions Department. Her current courses include: community-based participatory research and practice, health policy and ethics, leadership and collaboration, and community health practice.

Dr. Fiddian-Green is a community-engaged researcher with over ten years of experience using public health storytelling methods (e.g., digital storytelling, photovoice, ‘zines) to promote empathy, equity, and social change. She is currently working on two projects: one examining adolescent-parent decision making and HPV vaccination uptake, and the other that aims to reduce community and clinical level stigma to increase treatment for opioid misuse during pregnancy and adolescence. Alice has facilitated digital storytelling workshops at UMass Amherst Institute for Social Science Research; University of Oslo, Norway; UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center; and the University of San Francisco.

• Public health storytelling methods
• Community-engaged research
• Qualitative methodologies

• Substance use and treatment in pregnancy and adolescence
• Structural and social determinants of health
• Storytelling interventions to increase empathy in healthcare 

• Chair, Health Professions Department (2025-Present)
• Vice-Chair, Health Professions Department (2024-2025)
• Policy Board Representative, Faculty Association of the School of Nursing and Health Professions (2022-2025)
• Fellow, Ignatian Colleagues Program (2024-2025)
• Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, School of Nursing and Health Professions (2022-2024)

• UMass Amherst, PhD in Public Health, 2019
• UMass Amherst, MPH in Health Promotion and Policy, 2013

• Fellow, Michigan Integrative Well-Being and Inequality Training Program, 2024-2025
• Health Promotion Practice Journal- 20th Anniversary Special Collection, Top 20 list of research articles promoting radical practice published in the journal between 2000- 2020, 2020
• Rho Chapter of Delta Omega at UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Exemplary Graduate Student Inductee, 2020

• Fiddian-Green, A. & Gubrium, A. (2024). Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Critical Narrative Research, In A. Ruth, A. Wutich and H. R. Bernard (Eds.) The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors. Routledge Press
• Fiddian-Green, A. & Gubrium, A. (2023). Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Critical Narrative Research, In A. Ruth, A. Wutich and H. R. Bernard (Eds.) The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors. Routledge Press
• Fiddian-Green, A., Gubrium, A., Harrington, C., & Evans, E. (2022). Women-reported barriers and facilitators of continued engagement with medications for opioid use disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Special Issue: Reducing Health Inequities: Social Epidemiology Insights for Public Health and Social Policy, 19, 9346.
• Fiddian-Green, A., & Gubrium, A. (2021). Critical Narrative Intervention for Health Equity Research and Practice: Editorial Commentary Introducing the Health Promotion Practice Critical Narrative Intervention Special Collection. Health Promotion Practice.
• Fiddian-Green, A., Kim, S., Gubrium, A., Larkey, L. & Peterson, J. (2019). Restor(y)ing Health: A Conceptual Model of the Effects of Digital Storytelling on Socio-Emotional Wellbeing. Health Promotion Practice,
• Fiddian-Green, A., Gubrium, A., Peterson, J. (2017). Puerto Rican Latinas Coming Out to Talk About Sexuality and Identity. Health Communication, 32(9), 1093-1103