Shomsia has 20 years of experience in outcomes-based contracting, including direct delivery and management of frontline services as well as designing and commissioning a range of services to be contracted on outcomes. Her experience, starting in the UK, now has a global reach and crosses the public, private and voluntary sectors. Her career has always focused on social inclusion: working with and supporting underserved communities and individuals to realise their potential and human capital. Supporting people experiencing poor mental health has been a running theme throughout her career.
Whilst starting on the frontline, delivering services directly to service users, Shomsia has held senior leadership positions within local government in the UK and a FTSE 100 company.
More recently, Shomsia spent two years as an Advisor to the Global Fund (AIDS, TB and Malaria), managing a $10 million project across eight low- and middle-income countries, utilising contracting as a tool to deliver greater impact from Global Fund funded programmes. The project she managed introduced to the Global Fund outcomes-contracting modalities in a systematic manner.
Shomsia is currently the Development Director at the Healthy Brains Global Initiative, leading business development activities and the development of a specific Outcomes Fund focusing on youth and wellbeing (for which she is the designated Fund Director). Shomsia works directly with service providers of mental health programmes, building their capacity on outcomes contracting, including those utilising tech and innovative digital platforms to support improved mental health and wellbeing.
Shomsia holds an MA (Oxon) in Modern History from the University of Oxford.