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    • Data sharing is crucial for epidemiologic research reproducibility, replication, and maximizing study value.
    • Barriers like confidentiality, costs, and incentives hinder timely and extensive data sharing.

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    • To provide an overview of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles.
    • To describe approaches for implementing FAIR principles in epidemiological research.

    Main Methods:

    • Discussing the application of FAIR principles to address data sharing barriers.
    • Outlining strategies for increasing FAIRness, including cloud data servers, machine-readable files, and open-source code.

    Main Results:

    • FAIR principles improve data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability.
    • Adopting FAIR practices enhances daily work, collaborative analyses, and compliance with data sharing policies.

    Conclusions:

    • Achieving high FAIRness requires investment in funding, training, support, and incentives.
    • The benefits of FAIR data sharing—enhanced reproducibility, impact, and equity—outweigh the costs.