UT Health San Antonio

Allison D. Ihle, PhD, RN, FAAN

Assistant Professor

Dr. Allison Ihle (formerly Crawford), PhD, RN, FAAN is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s School of Nursing, where she conducts research involving childbearing communities influenced by incarceration. As a registered obstetrical nurse with post-doctoral training in digital health and over 33 publications, Dr. Ihle is an expert on the barriers associated with criminal legal oversight. 

Dr. Ihle’s research has directly informed two Texas state laws (HB 1651 and HB 1308) to improve healthcare in Texas jails. In 2025, Dr. Ihle was awarded top 25 Nurses in the Texas by the Texas Nurses Association and was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Dr. Ihle is currently a trainee in the National Institutes of Health Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium for Health and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (AIM-AHEAD NCAT) Training Cohort 3 (2026); a trainee of the CARES Social Determinants of Health Program at Yale School of Nursing (2026); a member of the inaugural cohort of the Nursing Program for Advancing Training in Health and Social Determinants (N-PATHS) nine-week course (2026); and an Ambassador for the Friends of the National Institutes of Nursing Research (2026-2028).

Dr. Ihle’s research has been 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). The long-term goal of her research is to culturally tailor and test a technological intervention her research informed, JUN, to enable self-efficacy and access to care discreetly and affordably for hard-to-reach groups.