Foreword 1. Hepatitis B Vaccine and the Birth of an Idea 2. Enter Children’s Vaccine Initiative and UNDP 3. Feasibility Study for IVI Initiated by UNDP 4. Institutional Politics and Commercial Interests Intervene 5. Host Country Selection Becomes an International Competition 6. Seoul Wins the Competition for IVI 7. IVI Opens Interim Office in Seoul 8. Conflicts and Difficulties of the First Years 9. Formal Birth of the International Vaccine Institute, 1997 10. End of the Mission Coda: IVI, Twenty-Five Years Later Acknowledgements Appendices Appendix 1. IVI’s early history in photos Appendix 2. Korean Institute Ponders Role In Global Eradication Efforts (Science, 1996) Appendix 3. The Global Vaccine Enterprise: A Developing World Perspective by Seung-il Shin, (Nature Medicine, 1998) About the Author