Roybal Institute on Aging in the USC School of Social Work. The mission of the Roybal Institute includes a focus on problems of aging in minority and low-income populations. Lloyd joined USC in 2010 after serving as assistant professor at Florida State University (FSU) and research scientist at Florida International University and University of Miami. At FSU he developed a popular graduate seminar on life course epidemiology; his additional teaching responsibilities focused on methods of quantitative data analysis and research design. Lloyd earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of Toronto in 2000, doing his dissertation research on socioeconomic consequences of early-onset psychiatric disorder.