Alice Fiddian-Green

Alice Fiddian-Green (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Nursing and Health Professions. Alice is a community-engaged researcher that uses public health storytelling methods (digital storytelling, 'zines, and photovoice) to research the social and structural determinants of substance use and treatment. Her current focus is on opioid use and treatment among pregnant people and adolescents. Her goal is to use storytelling methods to counter harmful stereotypes and develop programs and policies that promote health equity. Dr. Fiddian-Green has over ten years of teaching in public health programs. Her current courses include: community-based participatory research and practice, health policy and ethics, and leadership and collaboration.

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

• Reproductive health and justice

• Opioid use and treatment (pregnant people and adolescents)

• Storytelling and health equity

• Vice Chair, Health Professions Department

• Policy Board Representative, Faculty Association of the School of Nursing and Health Professions

• Fellow, Ignatian Colleagues Program

• Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, School of Nursing and Health Professions

• Chair, Behavioral Health Concentration, MPH Program

• 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