Giulia Ripani’s presentation “Health Discourses as Window Dressing” offers a critique of how music schools often approach health education. She reveals that much of what is called health education is limited and contradictory—focused on individual stress and injury management, often instrumentalized to drive performance at the expense of long-term wellbeing, and siloed between faculty expertise and clinical science. Ripani warns that schools’ statements about student wellness too often shift responsibility to students, framing health as a marketing product rather than core educational value. The result: health courses become elective side notes, passive learning predominates, and institutional action is reduced to symbolic gestures instead of real, structural change. This approach drives a conversation about the difference between window dressing and real, embedded health culture in music education and calls institutions to make wellness truly foundational.