# Amy Acton
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amy acton (born Amy Leigh Stearns; 1965/1966) is an American physician and public-health researcher who served as the director of the Ohio Department of Health from 2019–2020. She became known for her leading role in Ohio's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
== Early life and education ==
Acton was born Amy Stearns and raised on the north side of Youngstown, Ohio, living "in 18 different places in a 12-year period, including in a tent when she was homeless." She described in a 2020 interview with Youngstown's WKBN having random neighbors give her and her brother breakfast "because they knew we were hungry" and also "people looking the other way, not wanting their kids to play with me because we were dirty and smelly." She described in a 2019 interview being neglected and abused while she lived with her mother following her parents' divorce.
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