The team behind Auntie Betty

Auntie Betty is a collaboration between The Pamoja Institute and The LAM Sisterhood with website support from House9, courtesy of funding provided by Black Health Alliance. Translation, live chat, information, and resource support for Auntie Betty are provided in partnership with Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services, Scarborough Centre for Health Communities and the Black Vaccine Engagement Team in Toronto, Canada.  

Coming soon: The Auntie Betty chatbot, powered by VIRA!

VIRA is a chatbot developed by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with experts from the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health and Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. 

VIRA’s knowledge base from Johns Hopkins vaccine scientists was developed with support from the COVID-19 Training Initiative, with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies. VIRA’s VaxChat technology is powered by IBM Technology. VIRA’s visual identity was designed by House9 in collaboration with IVAC, and the website was built by House9.