Building The Health Chatbot Users’ Guide

Duaa O. Khair; Aditya U. Kale; Ruth Agbakoba; Ethan Goh; Bilal A. Mateen; Ariel Y. Ong; Sara-Jane McAteer; Susan C. Shelmerdine; Maxine Mackintosh; Xiaoxuan Liu; Melissa D. McCradden; Hayley D'Souza; Torie Robinson; Russell Pearson; Pritesh Mistry; Mavis Machirori; Andrea Downing; Charlotte Blease; Joseph E. Alderman

doi:10.1038/s44360-026-00074-5

Building The Health Chatbot Users’ Guide

Duaa O. Khair
, Aditya U. Kale
, Ruth Agbakoba
, Ethan Goh
, Bilal A. Mateen
, Ariel Y. Ong
, Sara-Jane McAteer
, Susan C. Shelmerdine
, Maxine Mackintosh
, Xiaoxuan Liu
, Melissa D. McCradden
, Hayley D'Souza
, Torie Robinson
, Russell Pearson
, Pritesh Mistry
, Mavis Machirori
, Andrea Downing
, Charlotte Blease
, Joseph E. Alderman^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Journal	Nature Health
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00074-5
Publication status	Published - 19 Feb 2026

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Khair, D. O., Kale, A. U., Agbakoba, R., Goh, E., Mateen, B. A., Ong, A. Y., McAteer, S.-J., Shelmerdine, S. C., Mackintosh, M., Liu, X., McCradden, M. D., D'Souza, H., Robinson, T., Pearson, R., Mistry, P., Machirori, M., Downing, A., Blease, C., & Alderman, J. E. (2026). Building The Health Chatbot Users’ Guide. Nature Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00074-5

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