Table 6.

Thematic analysis of stakeholder engagement open-ended survey comments for CO-CREATE and STOP COVID-19 CA CAB meetings

	CO-CREATE	Example quotes	STOP COVID-19 CA	Example quotes
Gratitude	33%	Cada vez voy entendiendo mas este grupo gracias por toda la información que nos están compartiendo. Every time I am understanding this group more, thank you for all the information you share with us. (Community Partner) I am learning so much from this process. Thank you! (Public Health Partner)	8%	Les agradezco a toda esta agrupacion el esfuerzo que hacen para querer ayudar a nuestras comunidades mas vulnerables. Pero espero que se llegue a concretar algo y no solo ser parte de un estudio. Muchas gracias por tomar encuenta mi opinion. I thank all this group for the effort they put in to help our most vulnerable communities. But I do hope that something will come to fruition and not just be part of a study. Thank you very much for taking my opinion into account. (Community Partner)
Positive experience	16%	It’s a long process, but getting feedback from all the diverse voices actually leaves you with a good feeling at the end. (Public Health Partner) I was very impressed by the level of engagement from everyone in sorting through the measures. It was a new concept and process and I think everyone was resilient in transitioning. I also appreciated the genuine interest and questions about the evidence review presentation. (non-CAB Research Partner) This has been a great experience, love getting community input straight from them. (Health Clinic Partner)	36%	Me encanto todo li de la ultima ves ,me siento incluida esta todo el grupo participando gracias, Gracias cada ves estoy mas feliz y agradecida por toda esta Participación que tenemos, y trabajar todos I loved everything from the last time, I feel included the whole group is participating, thank you, Thank you every time I am more happy and grateful for all this participation that we have, and everyone works well together. (Community Partner) It is very nice to see our partners share their experiences and suggestions. I noticed increasing participation both in the larger group and in our small breakout groups. The process is very important and what we find is helpful. (non-CAB Research Partner)
Meeting engagement --- (engagement related to Spanish speakers)	18% (10%)	I value the efforts made to pivot and try and make the Spanish language collaborators more integrated into the full process. I can tell that it is evolving, and I value the work being done on this front. I say this because I realized my responses to the first few questions were really only reflective of the English-facing activities because that is the language I participate in. And I need to remember to not just jump in and talk right away, so I create that space for others. Another thought is calling for Spanish language responses first at least half of the time instead of pausing to ask at the end. None of this is a criticism - just a reflection of things I’m learning about how I can build in more responsiveness in my own work outside of this process. (Public Health Partner) Much better facilitation for our Spanish speaking partners - created better place for open discussion and didn’t feel as time pressured. Seeing the board can be a bit challenging. (Health Clinic Partner)	12% (8%)	It was nice seeing everyone (both English and Spanish speakers) actively engaged in the topic. It was good that the English speakers were actively aware of doing things like taking time to repeat phrases/provides the Spanish speakers time to speak. (non-CAB Research Partner)
Input - Meeting process	12%	Gracias por los breaks muy importante Thanks for the breaks, they’re very important (Community Partner) When reporting back it would be great to start with community members and not the public health researchers; this can help avoid (perceptions of) hierarchies based on academic training. (Public Health Partner) Thank you for including me in this meeting. Moving forward, I would like to hear more from the community board members regarding their own experiences with testing access and vaccines. thank you. (Health Clinic Partner)	28%	I really like the way we move slowly to reach our goal as a team. Many breakout rooms are really helpful to be inclusive. (Community Partner) Although the moderator makes every effort to give everyone the opportunity to weigh in, some members regularly dominate the discussion, which affects others’ ability to share their opinions and perspective. It might help on occasion to call on members, starting in the order of the ones we hear from the least. (non-CAB Research Partner)
Input - Interpretation	16%	Es acerca del sistema de traduccion.no estamos teniendo muy buen resultado.deberia ser en un solo electronico.asi evitariamos confuciones. Regarding the translation system … we are not having very good results … it should be in a single electronic … so we would avoid confusion. (Community Partner)	4%	A mi parecer ,todos sabemos lo que se tiene que tener en Nuestras Comunidad y lo expresamos de diferentes maneras. Hay palabras como ayer cuando se menciono creo que no es la palabra correcta, y como lo dije puedo no hablar, entender ,leer ingles pero es porque no es mi Lenguage Original. Pero soy un profecioal en mi pais Pero si me explican lo que acontece, o la cituacion que esta sucediendo en mi idioma ,claro Creando Confianza en la Comunidad In my opinion, we all know what we need in our community, and we express it in different ways. There are words like yesterday that were mentioned were incorrect, and as I said I cannot speak, understand, read English but it is because it is not my original language. But I am a professional in my country, but if they explain to me what is happening, or the situation that is happening in my language, of course creating trust in the community. (Community Partner)
Input - Dissemination	4%	En mi experiencia y recaudando la información de la comunidad la prueba para el covid está siendo olvidada por que ahora la vacuna es lo que consideran prioridad…así que las filas para el covid descienden y las de la vacuna aumenta esto más de ser un alivio es preocupante. Las vacunas no están tan disponibles y aunque se la pongan no salvan del covid solo disminuyen los efectos y esto es tan importante que trasmita para que la población no baje su guardia y continúen con las pruebas del covid.en resumen educación e información serteraaaa [certera] gracias por este espacio gracias. In my experience through collecting information from the community, the COVID-19 test is being forgotten because now the vaccine is what they consider a priority, so the lines for the covid test decrease and those for the vaccine increase; this more than being a relief, it is worrisome. Vaccines are not so available and even if they get it, they do not save us from covid they only reduce the effects and this is so important to communicate so that the population does not lower their guard and continue getting tested. In summary, education and accurate information. Thanks for this space, thank you. (Community Partner)	4%	The workshop is great way on how the community members share their thoughts on how their members react to the COVID19 crisis, it also help leaders to take messages back to their community on how to understand the benefits on how they can protect themselves with COVID19. (Community Partner)
CAB impact	2%	Judging by the comments at the conclusion of yesterday’s meeting, the Advisory Board process is already having a positive impact within San Ysidro Health. Some representatives from the SYH partners said that they will make some adjustments to their work right now, and we haven even finished the planning process. (Non-CAB Community Partner)	8%	The discussion benefits the partners where the community board will share this information from discussion with their community members. For example, the difficulty of the vaccine among the minority community where they have a hard time getting appointments. Also, community board members can help to fill the gap for language that makes confusion among the minority community about the vaccine, I hope many people now trust their community leaders and are willing to get the COVID19 vaccine. (Community Partner)