Lauren D. Arnold, Ph.D., Receives 2025-2026 Kroeff Family Award for Excellence in Teaching
The 2025-2026 recipient of the Saint Louis University Kroeff Family Award for Excellence in Teaching is Lauren D. Arnold, Ph.D., M.P.H., CPH.
In 2025, the Kroeff Family Endowed Award in Teaching Excellence and the Kroeff Family Term Award in Teaching Excellence was established to recognize outstanding faculty in SLU’s College for Public Health and Social Justice.
Cathy and Gene Kroeff established the Kroeff Family Endowed Scholarship Fund in 2019 to support future undergraduate students majoring in public health at SLU and in 2025 the couple created the Kroeff Family Endowed Award in Teaching Excellence and the Kroeff Family Term Award in Teaching Excellence.
From the many exceptional teachers nominated by students, one faculty member is selected by a committee of students.
Arnold is an associate professor in epidemiology and the director of the health management and public health undergraduate programs.
“It is so fitting that Dr. Arnold is the inaugural recipient of this honor! She pours her heart and soul into our undergraduates, and I’m delighted to see them recognize her in this way,” said Dean Leslie McClure, Ph.D.
In gratitude for the University’s profound impact on their daughter and in honor of her graduation, The Kroeffs established the Kroeff Family Endowed Scholarship Fund in 2019 to support future undergraduate students majoring in public health at SLU. The scholarship reached endowed status this academic year and provides essential financial student support.
“The College for Public Health and Social Justice is deeply grateful for the generous support of the Kroeff family,” McClure said. “The opportunity to recognize outstanding instructors, particularly those dedicated to undergraduate education, is truly meaningful.”
College for Public Health and Social Justice
The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice is the only academic unit of its kind, studying social, environmental and physical influences that together determine the health and well-being of people and communities. It also is the only accredited school or college of public health among nearly 250 Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States.
Guided by a mission of social justice and focus on finding innovative and collaborative solutions for complex health problems, the College offers nationally recognized programs in public health, social work, health administration, applied behavior analysis, and criminology and criminal justice.