Dr. Floyd serves as an advisor to  the MSM Office of Global Health Equity. With extensive experience in global health, she served as the Director of Human Development, Sexuality and Reproductive Health for the Ford Foundation. There she provided leadership to a global team of program officers in grant making activities in the US and overseas focusing on developing countries.

Prior to Ford, she served as the Director of the Family Health Branch, Division of Public Health for the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Programs under her direction included Child and Adolescent Health, Women’s Health, WIC & Nutrition Program, Immunization, Family Planning, Children with Special Health Care Needs (Children’s Medical Services, Genetics and Children 1st Early Intervention Program). She served as a principal investigator for the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Perinatal Care and Health Services Research in Maternal & Child Health and was selected as a W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow.

Her board membership includes  National March of Dimes, PROMETRA International, the Andrew J Young Foundation  and the African Women's Millennium Initiative (AWOMI). Virginia has been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.