The Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) provides essential national and provincial immunization coverage estimates, but additional adaptation may be needed to understand local, community-specific access barriers and experiences that are not visible in aggregate data. This webinar introduces TIDE (Together in Immunization, Dialogue & Equity), a community-partnered research project adapting, applying, and assessing the CNICS tool to better reflect the experiences of families whose experiences may not be sufficiently visible in aggregate coverage estimates — including African Nova Scotian, Indigenous, and newcomer families, and families without a primary care provider or experiencing housing insecurity. These categories are not mutually exclusive, and families may experience overlapping forms of marginalization.

Presenters will walk through TIDE's community-partnered adaptation process — including the specific revisions made to strengthen cultural safety, psychological safety, accessibility, and inclusivity — and share early lessons from our experience in recruitment and planning. The session will close by discussing how pilot learning and further community engagement will shape the next phase of the project, including future implementation, co-design, and opportunities for partnership.

Sonia Anita Siddiqui is the TIDE Community Project Lead with the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV) and a PhD student in Health at Dalhousie University. She co-leads community engagement and project coordination for TIDE, working in partnership with Community Research Partners and community members using a community-based participatory research approach — from tool adaptation through pilot implementation. Sonia has hands-on experience fostering inclusive, culturally and psychologically safe spaces for collaborative research, where partners' expertise and lived experience shape the work as equal contributors. She's committed to reciprocal, relationship-based approaches to community engagement and knowledge translation that reflect the priorities and strengths of the communities involved. Being part of a research process built on mutual trust, respect, and shared ownership is what brings the most meaning to her work.

Makenna Eydt is a Community-Based Research Assistant with the Canadian Center for Vaccinology’s social science team. Her work focuses on supporting community-partnered vaccine research, including survey adaptation, pilot implementation, recruitment, and knowledge mobilization. Through the TIDE project, Makenna has helped adapt the CNICS tool for use in Nova Scotia and supported efforts to make study materials more accessible, inclusive, and responsive to community and participant feedback. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Dalhousie University and first joined the TIDE project as a Community Research Partner before becoming a full-time member of the CCfV team.