Founded in 2020, APAR is a decentralized, non-governmental, non-hierarchical alliance with representation from global multisectoral and multidisciplinary stakeholders that catalyze South-South Cooperation (SSC) to holistically and sustainably advance health and bio-security capacities in the global south while facilitating the health security dialogue with the North to enable a global ecosystem of pandemic preparedness and response.

APAR has been launched to address the critical needs identified during the New Delhi One Health India Conference held on February 28th, 2019  where experts and representatives from 28 countries supported and signed a declaration that calls for establishing a global network that can effectively respond to continuing global threat and burden of zoonotic diseases.