Luvenia Cowart

• 2025 Fall
  • PHP 304 Community Health Education
  • PHP 310 Promoting Health Through Literacy & Cultural Competence
• 2025 Spring
  • PHP 310 Promoting Health Through Literacy & Cultural Competence
  • PHP 600 Selected Topics - Grant Wrt A-Z:Expmntl Approach
• 2024 Fall
  • PHP 304 Community Health Education
  • PHP 310 Promoting Health Through Literacy & Cultural Competence
• 2024 Spring
  • PHP 310 Promoting Health Through Literacy & Cultural Competence

As a professor of practice, Luvenia Cowart’s primary responsibility involves directing minority health initiatives to develop academic and community partnerships to reduce health disparities and promote health and healthy lifestyles among minority communities as consistent with the Healthy People 2030 federal mandate.

Cowart is also the executive director and founder of The Genesis Health Project, a community-designed, culturally competent program to reduce obesity and promote healthy lifestyles among African Americans in Syracuse, New York.

"Improving Financial Wellness Among African Americans Through Financial Literacy Education: Advancing Health Equity In Underserved Communities", Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

"Empowering Black Pastors to Amplify Colorectal Cancer Prevention Messages in Underserved Communities", Sponsored by Prevent Cancer Foundation.

"African American Dementia Caregivers Support Program", Sponsored by New York State Department of Health.

"Breast Cancer Awareness and Education Program for AA Women in Underserved Communities", Sponsored by Susan B. Komen for the Cure Central New.

"Environmental Toxicants, Race, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health.

• Journal Articles
  • Brown, M. T., Cowart, L. W., "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Faith-based Breast Health Education." In No. Health Education Journal, 2018.
  • Cowart, L. W., Biro, D. J., Wasserman, T., Stein, R. F. and Reider, L. R., "Targeting Obesity Among African Americans through nutrition, fitness, and faith: Designing and testing a community-driven pilot program." ABNF Journal, 2010.
  • Cowart, L. W., Biro, D. J., Wasserman, T., Stein, R. F., Reider, L. R. and Brown, B., "Designing and pilot-testing a church-based community program to reduce obesity among African Americans.." The ABNF journal : official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education, Inc, 2010.
  • Cowart, L. W., Brown, B. and Biro, D. J., "Educating African American men about prostate cancer: The Barbershop Program.." American Journal of Health Studies, 2004.
• Book Chapter
  • Middlemiss, M. A., Raj, S., Carter, B., Cowart, L. W., Hensel, M. L., Horacek, T. and Smith, C., "Interprofessional learning community." In Building and sustaining learning communities: the Syracuse University experience. , 2004.

Event, Genesis Health Project Network, "Health Equity For All: How Do We Get There?" (November, 2025)

Annual Convocation, Genesis Health Project Network, "Promoting Breast Cancer Awareness in Underserved Communities" (March 12, 2025)

Annual Health Justice Conference, SUNY Upstate Medical University, "Advancing Health Equity through Literacy and Cultural Leveraging within Underserved Communities" (2022 - 2023)

Annual Women Conference, Living Water Church Of God In Christ, Genesis Health Project Network, "Communities Taking Charge of Their Health" (2019)

Alzheimer's Association CNY Regional Meeting, "Genesis Health Project Network In Action" (2019)

Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence, Syracuse University (2013)

Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein’s Social Justice Award, Social Workers United, Syracuse University School of Social Work (2012)

Post-Standard Achievement Award, Post-Standard Daily Newspaper (2012)

Syracuse University Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship, HTW311 Health Literacy and HTW 307 Culturally Competent Healthcare, Syracuse University (2007 - 2012)

Syracuse University Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship, Genesis Health Project, Syracuse University (2005 - 2012)