She worked in Asia in the 1920s, advising the Governor General of the Philippines on public health nursing, and founding a nursing program at Baguio.B. L. Brush, "Conflicting agendas: Alice Fitzgerald and Philippine public health nursing" Nursing Research 44(3)(May–June 1995): 190-191.Stephanie S. Bator, "The Rockefeller Foundation and the Philippine Islands, 1913-1935" (2010), report to the Rockefeller Archive Center. She did further earthquake relief in Japan after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. She started a nursing school in Bangkok in 1924, and studied nursing programs in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China. In 1927, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross."The Florence Nightingale Medal" American Journal of Nursing (September 1949): 580. DOI: 10.2307/3458447
