As policy and legal experts, we work with partners globally to advance social justice and equitable health outcomes

Who We Are

Article XII is a women-owned, values-driven company working towards the realization of the right to health. We envision a world where everyone can fulfill their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

How We Work

Our consultants provide high-quality guidance and expertise on legal and policy work related to public health. Our projects:

  • Take a rights-based approach, centering on communities most impacted

  • Adopt an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach - working in teams that bridge across the health and justice sectors and on topics that require addressing overlapping complexities

  • Use sustainable models of work, focused on amplifying national and regional expertise for long-term change

In addition to our consulting projects, we engage in pro bono work that supports the work of communities and non-profits working on health, human rights and social justice.

Meet the Team

  • Gayané Arustamyan

    PRINCIPAL

    Gayané Arustamyan is an health and human rights expert with twelve years in HIV program design, grant management, monitoring and evaluation. She brings a wide range of experience acquired in academic, civil society and international organizations, including the Joint UN Program for HIV/AIDS, and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Gayané has hands-on knowledge working with key populations living with HIV, as well as expertise in harm reduction programming and community systems strengthening. Her regional experience includes Eastern Europe and Central Asia, South East Asia, West and Central Africa. Gayané holds a PhD in Economic Sciences from Moscow State University, and a Master of Public Health from Karolinska Institute.

  • Megan McLemore

    PRINCIPAL

    Megan is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience in researching and monitoring issues related to health and human rights.  As a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, she specialized  in identifying multi-faceted human rights barriers to the right to health for people living with and at risk for HIV and TB, women and girls, sex workers, LGBTQ communities, prisoners, and people who use drugs. More recently she has consulted as part of a team of experts to evaluate human rights programming for the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria. She is a graduate of New York University School of Law and she holds an LLM in International Human Rights from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

  • Nina Sun

    FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

    Nina Sun is a lawyer and advocate who has worked on global health law and policy for over a decade. Her experience includes legal analysis, human rights and gender equality work with international and non-governmental organizations, including the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the World Health Organization and the Center for Reproductive Rights. Nina also keeps one foot in the academic world, engaging in fellowships at Stanford University and Duke University. An avid writer and scholar, she has published articles in the British Journal of Medicine, BMJ Global Health and the Journal of the International AIDS Society. Nina holds a J.D. from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from New York University. She is barred in New York and North Carolina, USA.

In addition to our team, Article XII works with a network of health, human rights and gender consultants globally. Please contact us for more information.