GeoALS maps and apps¶
The public tools GeoALS maintains, each with what it does and who uses it. All are built on ArcGIS and hosted through the ALS Geospatial Hub. Clinic totals on this page are snapshots with their dates.
ALS Clinic Advisor · Legislative Viewer · ALS Geospatial Hub · Research collaborations · Stories and coverage
ALS Clinic Advisor¶
A set of connected apps for finding and reviewing ALS and motor neuron disease (MND) clinics.
| App | What it does | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Advisor Locator | Find a clinic by location, clinic name or neurologist, filter by rating, and browse services | Open the Locator |
| Advisor Dashboard | Read reviews submitted by people living with ALS and their caregivers | Open the Dashboard |
| Ed Mytych Advisor Survey | An eye-gaze friendly questionnaire for reviewing a clinic | Take the survey |
| Add a clinic | Submit a clinic that is missing from the map | Add a clinic |
The clinic database is assembled with the ALS Association, the Veterans Administration, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations and the World Health Organization. The GeoALS blog reported 481 clinics mapped worldwide as of February 2026. Reviews appear in the dashboard shortly after submission, so clinics and care organizations can see strengths and areas for improvement as the community reports them.
Videos: GeoALS Clinic Locator 2.0, Global ALS / MND Clinic Locator.
Glen Rouse ALS Legislative Viewer¶
For every member of Congress, the viewer shows support for ALS legislation and ALS Caucus membership, beside facts about the ALS community in that state or district. Advocates use it to prepare for meetings and to ask legislators to cosponsor bills or join the caucus.
Videos: Legislative Viewer 2.0, Reauthorization Act for ALS Map.
ALS Geospatial Hub¶
The Hub, launched in 2022, is the foundation of GeoALS's work. It gathers authoritative data from federal agencies, research institutions and nonprofit organizations by geography, and it hosts the maps, apps and story maps built from that data.
Videos: ALS Geospatial Hub Webinar, WHO Knowledge Series webinar.
Research collaborations¶
GeoALS provides maps and analysis to research partners. Collaborations described on the GeoALS site include:
- CDC National ALS Registry: studying the place history of people enrolled in the Registry, presented at the Registry's 2023 annual meeting, and work to increase the Registry's enrollment and diversity. See Mapping the CDC National ALS Registry.
- ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI): studying the place history of participants in the ALS Research Collaborative (ARC) study. ALS TDI also used Esri developer tools, introduced by Pat Dolan, to build the map in its ALS Trial Navigator.
- Team Gleason Foundation: identifying communities that most need the foundation's services.
Researchers who would like to work with GeoALS can start with the Grant toolkit.
Stories and coverage¶
Read the featured stories in the StoryMaps gallery, with embedded readers and full-page links.
- Patterns of Care in the U.S., a GeoALS story map on clinic access and travel time
- The Advocate, a story map about Pat Dolan's legislative mapping
- Esri ArcNews, "When Lived Experience Can Help Others"
- Esri ArcUser, "Adding Location Can Make All the Difference"
- Esri announcement on the ALS Trial Navigator
- ALS Association, "ALS Global Clinic Locator: Mapping the World"
- ALS Network, "Pat Dolan: Mapping the future of ALS Care, Cures, and Community"
- GeoALS blog
Sources¶
- GeoALS, Our work and blog post "Lighting up the globe", read 12 November 2026