MIDDLETOWN — The Middletown City Board of Health has appointed Matthew Clayton as the city’s next health commissioner.

Clayton brings more than 25 years of public health experience in southwest Ohio to the role. He most recently served more than a decade as health commissioner for the City of Springdale.

He previously worked four years with Hamilton County Public Health and 12 years with the Cincinnati Health Department. Clayton earned a Master of Public Health degree from Wright State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition to his local public health work, Clayton has served on the Ohio Department of Health Advisory Board and as Director-at-Large on the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners Board. Clayton and his wife, Dana, have four children, including three who were adopted. The family enjoys traveling and camping in their free time.

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