He holds a chair in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo.
With Professor John Harris Holm served as co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics from 2004-2011.
Holm holds a master's degree in health care ethics from the University of Manchester and two doctoral degrees in medical ethics from the University of Copenhagen.
[2] Holm and John Harris co-authored a seminal paper in Nature that challenged the value of the precautionary principle in modern scientific research.
[3] Together with researchers Bjørn Hofmann (NTNU) and Anne I. Myhr (UiT) he conducted a study in 2010-2011 among PhD students at Norwegian medical faculties to investigate their attitudes toward scientific dishonesty.