Moyses Szklo is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Szklo received his medical degree from the Medical Sciences School at Rio de Janeiro State University in 1963. He then went to pursue an education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he studied the natural history and etiology of cardiovascular diseases. He received his master of public health from the school in 1972 and his doctor of public health in 1974.
