Public testimony: Dr. Marcus Lambert, SUNY Downstate professor, supports project
Dr. Marcus Lambert, a masjid member for 20 years and SUNY Downstate professor, testifies in support. He describes the masjid's public health impact including cancer screenings, hypertension and diabetes events, and emphasizes the need for structures to sustain collaborative efforts between medical institutions, community organizations, and faith-based institutions.
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Thank you, Councilwoman Fairlewis.
This is Dr.
Marcus Lambert.
I have been a member of Masjid Abdul-Muksi Khalifa for about 20 years now.
I'm actually a transplant to New York.
My wife is originally born and raised in East New York.
And since then, I've joined as a professor.
At SUNY Downstate, which we've had a couple interactions with you, Dr.
Lewis.
So thank you for you.
I mean, Councilwoman Lewis, thank you for your support for our community.
And I just want to really speak to the public health impact that our masjid has really had on the community.
We've hosted a number of events throughout the years in terms of wellness, in terms of screenings, making sure that our community members are screened for things like
colorectal cancer and prostate cancer, hypertension, and so forth, diabetes.
And it would be a shame, a tragedy, to sort of see that our institution doesn't have another 100-year legacy in this sort of impact in public health in this way.
And I, for one,
will be working my hardest to ensure that these sort of collaborative efforts between our medical institutions, our community-based organizations, and our faith-based institutions continue.
And we need structures to make that happen.
So thank you for your time.
Thank you so much, Marcus.