Cheryl Arndt, PhD

Cheryl Arndt is the Manager of Community Health Evaluation and Impact and fellow in the 2022-2023 Pool Fellowship for Health (Cohort 8).

Since joining LPPIH in 2022, Cheryl has led efforts to optimize the use of data to advance LPPIH’s effectiveness and support decision-making and has led the Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Planning processes with hospitals across seven counties. For two decades, Cheryl developed and ran mental health and social services programs for children and adults in the Lehigh Valley. When an employer encouraged her to lead a performance improvement initiative, she discovered a passion for helping nonprofits to effectively and efficiently collect, analyze, use and communicate their critical data. Since then, Cheryl has worked in evaluation and performance improvement in healthcare, education and social services programs in multiple states. She has served on state and local boards, committees and councils. Additionally, Cheryl has presented at over a dozen conferences, served as a peer reviewer for an American Psychological Association journal and published a book chapter as well as articles in trade and academic journals.

In addition to her non-profit work, Cheryl has experience as a small business owner, having owned a successful consumer insight and user experience research company where she worked internationally and with multiple Fortune 500 companies. Cheryl’s degrees are in psychology–her master’s was clinical in nature while her PhD was focused on research. She has taught Psychology at the community college, university and graduate levels. When not working, Cheryl enjoys dog training, kayaking and trying to keep up with the garden. She lives with her family in rural, northwestern Lehigh County.