To prepare for climbing Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, a 20,548-foot peak, Harvard Chan School facilities director Daniel Beaudoin hit the School’s stairwells. Three days a week, for months, he climbed 50 flights in the School’s four buildings, carrying a heavy backpack and wearing a restricted breathing device. And when he actually reached Chimborazo’s summit in early February 2025, the first thing he did was snap a photo of himself holding the School’s vision banner, with the phrase “Health, dignity, and justice for every human”—because, after 37 years at the School, he believes in the public health mission.
