Dr. Luvenia Cowart, educator and health care advocate
Dr. Luvenia Cowart will be one of five individuals to be awarded with the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence next month. Cowart’s work to examine health care disparities in Syracuse has won her awards such as the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2009.
Cowart’s Genesis Project included a Barbershop Education Program that provided supplemental literature and screenings to men who did not frequent traditional healthcare venues.
Luvenia Cowart RN, EdD, director, Genesis Health Project Network
Syracuse University Professor Luvenia Cowart, RN, EdD, discussed the strategies of the Genesis Project this afternoon at SUNY Upstate Medical Center’s Sarah Loguen Fraser Day. She discussed culturally competent principles as it relates to spreading news about healthcare and nutrition.
The Genesis Healthcare Project is a faith-based initiative that seeks to make black men good healthcare consumers by engaging them at community locations such as barbershops and churches.
Genesis received a NIH grant in 2009.