UT Health San Antonio

Allison D. Ihle, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Dr. Allison Ihle (formerly Crawford), PhD, RN is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Health at San Antonio’s School of Nursing, where she conducts health disparity research involving childbearing communities influenced by incarceration. As a registered obstetrical nurse with post-doctoral training in digital health, Dr. Ihle has been engaging in research with women with criminal legal system involvement since 2016 and is an expert on the barriers women experience who have criminal justice oversight. Her research directly informed two Texas state laws passed in 2019 (HB 1651) and 2021 (HB 1308) to improve healthcare for women in Texas county jails. The long-term goal of her research is to culturally tailor and test a technological intervention her research informed, JUNTM, to enable self-efficacy and access to care discreetly and affordably for hard-to-reach groups. Dr. Ihle’s research is currently funded by IIMS CTSA and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HD103634-03S2 (PI, Ihle; Parent PI, Rebecca Shlafer, UMN).