Amilcar Matos Moreno

Amílcar Matos-Moreno, Ph.D., M.P.H. serves as associate professor in the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology Program at Albizu University, San Juan Campus. This faculty member’s academic preparation and research agenda contribute to the Program’s scientist-practitioner training model and culturally responsive approach.

Gerontology; psychosocial determinants of health; migration; population aging; depression and anxiety; social networks; research design; analysis of complex survey samples; survey methods.

• Ph.D. (2021), Social Epidemiology, University of Michigan
• M.P.H. (2014), Biostatistics, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
• B.A. (2013), Research Methodology in the Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

• Patterson, S. E., Reyes, A., Wu, H., & Matos-Moreno, A. (2026). Expectations for families to care for older adults in the United States: Rapid scoping review 2011-2023. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.70042
• Matos-Moreno, A., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Williams, I., Verdery, A. M., Fernández Soto, M., & Santos-Lozada, A. (2025). Kinship structures for left behind older adults in high outmigration contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(6), gbaf052. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf052
• Quashie, N. T., García, C., Meltzer, G., Andrade, F. C. D., & Matos-Moreno, A. (2023). Neighborhood socioeconomic position, living arrangements, and cardiometabolic disease among older Puerto Ricans: An examination using PREHCO 2002-2007. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0289170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289170
• Matos-Moreno, A., Verdery, A. M., Mendes de Leon, C. F., De Jesús-Monge, V. M., & Santos-Lozada, A. R. (2022). Aging and the left behind: Puerto Rico and its unconventional rapid aging. The Gerontologist. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac082
• Matos-Moreno, A., Santos-Lozada, A. R., Mehta, N. K., Mendes de Leon, C. F., Lê-Scherban, F., & De Lima Friche, A. A. (2021). Migration is the driving force of rapid aging in Puerto Rico: A research brief. Population Research and Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09683-2