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Course Name: Public Health Implications of Disasters
Week 12 – Epidemiological Investigation
Overview
Most people associate public health emergency operations with the actual investigation regarding an infectious disease threat or other incident type. This week you will learn the process for how this is accomplished.
For those of you looking for the location of the statistical epidemiology material that has been covered in this course since its inception, you will not find it here because it has been moved to the course on clinical disaster medicine. Many students had complained that it was too difficult to digest the basics of epidemiology in a single week for those who had no background in clinical medicine. Hopefully, this approach to teaching epidemiology, which is an integral part of public health, will make it easier to understand and place it in a context where it makes more sense than straightforward basic science.
Reading
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Required reading
1. Criminal and Epidemiological Investigations (Read at least the Public Health section).
2. Powerpoint from USDA on an actual infectious food-borne illness outbreak investigation.
Discussion Bored Question
Summarize any one chapter of the handbook on epidemiological investigation and provide one example of a US or international public health emergency in which this science was used or likely used.
Before starting on this assignment, make sure to thoroughly review the required background materials. Make sure you fully understand both the basic concepts as well as how to calculate payback period, NPV, IRR, and WACC. Submit your answers in a Word document. Make sure to show your work for all quantitative questions and fully explain your answers using references to the background readings for any conceptual questions. Questions 1 and 2 will require Excel. Attach an Excel file to show your computations for Questions 1 and 2.
Case Assignment
The table below gives the initial investment and expected cash flows over the next five years for two different projects. Assume that the industry you are in expects a return of 10%, which you use as the discount rate in net present value (NPV) calculations and as the required rate of return for purposes of deciding on projects. Also, assume that management only wants to invest in projects that pay off within four years.
For each project, compute the payback period, NPV, and internal rate of return (IRR). Then explain whether each project should be accepted based on these three criteria.
Project A
Project B
Initial Investment
$40,000
$28,000
Year
Cash Flows
1
$10,000
$10,000
2
$10,000
$13,000
3
$10,000
$5,000
4
$10,000
$5,000
5
$10,000
$6,000
Suppose you are planning on becoming a vendor at the arena where your favorite sports team plays. You are trying to decide between opening up a souvenir stand selling T-shirts, caps, etc., with your sports team’s logo or opening up a hot dog and beer stand. It is more expensive to open up the hot dog and beer stand because you need to purchase a license to serve alcohol and you need to spend money to comply with health department regulations. Revenue from the souvenir stand is likely to be unpredictable because fans of your favorite team tend to want to purchase hats and T-shirts only when the team is winning. Revenue from hot dogs and beer seem to be a little more steady since fans want to eat and drink regardless of whether the team is winning.
Below is a table with the initial investment cost of each type of stand and the annual payments you expect over the next five years. The annual payments will be different depending on how well your team does. Therefore, you will estimate how much cash flow you will get depending on whether your team does better than expected (optimistic), the same as the past few years (most likely), and worse than expected (pessimistic). Use a discount rate of 8%.
Based on the table below, answer the following items:
Calculate the net present value (NPV) for each type of stand under each of the three scenarios. Calculate the range of possible NPV values for each type of stand.
Based on your answer to A) above and your own guesses about how well you think your favorite team will do over the next five years, which type of stand would you rather invest in?
Souvenir Stand
Hot Dog and Beer Stand
Initial Investment
$100,000
$150,000
Annual Cash Inflows (5 Years)
Outcome
Pessimistic
$30,000
$50,000
Most likely
$50,000
$60,000
Optimistic
$70,000
$70,000
Suppose you are a corn farmer in your home state. You have to decide between two projects. One project is to purchase new equipment for your farm that will help boost your profits for the next 10 years. You also find out that you can purchase a large banana farm in Brazil for the same price as the equipment, and at the current market price for bananas you will make a lot more profit than you would from purchasing new corn farming equipment.
After asking around, you find out that the standard discount rate for evaluating the NPV of the farming project is 6%. Most farmers in your home state seem to use this rate successfully. However, you don’t know any other banana farmers and you don’t know too much about farming in Brazil, so you have to make a guess on an appropriate discount rate for the Brazilian banana farm. Based on the concepts from the background readings, would you say the Brazilian banana farm will need a lower or higher discount rate? A lot larger or smaller, or only a little?
Calculate the following:
The cost of equity if the risk-free rate is 2%, the market risk premium is 8%, and the beta for the company is 1.3.
The cost of equity if the company paid a dividend of $2 last year and is expected to grow at a constant rate of 7%. The stock price is currently $40.
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) if the company has a total value of $1 million with a market value of its debt at $600,000 and a market value of its equity at $400,000. Its cost of debt is 6% and its cost of equity is 15%. The tax rate it pays is 25%.
Suppose you own a chain of dry cleaners and the WACC you’ve been using to make decisions on new purchases of dry cleaning equipment is a steady 9%. Recently, gambling has been made legal in your home town so you decide to expand and open up a casino. Should you use the same WACC to evaluate purchases of casino equipment? Why or why not? What are some alternatives to using the same WACC to make decisions on casino equipment? Explain your reasoning, and make references to concepts from the background readings.
Assignment Expectations
Answer the assignment questions directly.
Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the , including pages 11-14 on in-text
Module 3 – Background
Capital Budgeting and the Cost of Capital
Start off the module by viewing these videos from Professor Roberts of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Roberts of Rice University. These videos will give you a general overview of the key concepts of capital budgeting and the cost of capital:
Roberts, M. (2017). Decision criteria. Coursera. Retrieved from:
Weston, J. (2017) Putting it all together as WACC (weighted average cost of capital). Coursera. Retrieved from:
Ross, S., Westerfield, R., & Jordan, B. (2007) Chapter 8: Net present value and other investment criteria. Essentials of Corporate Finance. McGraw Hill.
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Ross, S., Westerfield, R., & Jordan, B. (2007) Chapter 12: Cost of capital. Essentials of Corporate Finance. McGraw Hill. Retrieved from:
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for an alternative link] Finally, check out the following video that will show you how to make capital budgeting calculations using Excel: Graulich, V. (2012). How to calculate NPV and IRR. IHateMath.com. Retrieved from:
Codible (2019). NPV and IRR in Excel 2010. Retrieved 08/19/2019 from
If you still have difficulty with the material after reviewing the required materials, check out the optional materials below. Included are two additional videos, including one on using Excel to compute NPV and IRR. Also included are some additional book chapters that cover the same material but explain it in a slightly different way with different examples.
Optional Reading
BlueBookAcademy.com. (2015). Learn it FAST: Weighted average cost of capital explained. Retrieved from:
Girvin, M. (2010). Investment criteria: NPV, IRR, payback, AAR, profitability index. Retrieved from:
Fabozzi, F. J., & Peterson Drake, P. (2009). Chapter 14: Capital budgeting techniques. Finance: Capital markets, financial management, and investment management. Wiley. Available in the Trident Online Library. Clive, M. (2012). Chapter 14: The cost of capital. Financial management for non-financial managers. Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library. Block, S. & Hirt, G. (2008). Chapter 12: The capital budgeting decision. Foundations of Financial Management. McGraw-Hill, Retrieved from:
citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.
Read Case 9-1 Starbucks Takes Coffee Culture Around the World on page 300.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you answer the following discussion questions in detail:
What is the explanation for the two different market expansion strategies?
Should Starbucks enter the Italian coffeehouse market? Why or why not?
In the long run, which company is more likely to win the global “coffee war”: Starbucks or McDonalds? Do you see another potential competitor? Who and why?
Utilize outside source material to support your ideas, and include analytical data specific to this study.
Cite at least three outside references in addition to your textbook.
There are tons of ideas on the web these topics and many others. • MESSENGER that orbited around Mercury and later was intentionally crashed into Mercury, The NASA TESS or Kepler spacecraft discoveries, extrasolar planets, future or current observatories, an observatory on the Moon; is it a good idea? • Discussion of an astronomical system that you find particularly interesting.
Identify an assignment in this course that had a positive impact on you. How will you be able to apply the skills you learned from it to gain life and/or career success?
It can be the chapter I have attached to this question
Watch the Lynda.com video from start to end “Database Fundamentals: Core Concepts” with .
The entire video series is approximately 3 hour and 30 minutes in length.
Log in in with your Stratford credentials.
Save your “Certificate of Completion” for uploading in Lesson 8 area.
Read/Review the Article, “Hardware Maintenance “. This article will help you to complete Module 8 assignment.
Your client has just purchased a new sever for their small coffee shop and would like you to develop a preventative maintenance training for the staff in hopes of keeping the server running smoothly for a long time. Your task is to develop a proper server maintenance technique check list.
Use the article, “Hardware Maintenance” to help you.
hat and why does the piece stands out to you and briefly (1-2 sentences) explain why this particular piece “caught your ear.”
What are the piece’s unique characteristics? BE SPECIFIC and use your textbook as your reference! This should be the main part of your mini-essay. This is not opinion – these are facts that you have researched.
– including your textbook. Points deducted for not citing references.
Response should be one-two paragraphs. Use full sentences, no abbreviations, and check your spelling for full credit.
